Now this doesn't hold true:
Will definately use more resources.
I am very pleased that UMG developer made a thorough explanation in the previous comment as it was exactly my thought but I couldn't had written it on my phone.
And to add some value to it I think other than being more precise with the resources option you could have thrown in an option relating to indexes or inserts (w/ or wo/ instead of triggers), language dependent functions...
I myself have written a calendar table w/ one physical date column, one computed persisted integer column and a whole bunch of non-persisted columns calculated from the date column.
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Hrvoje Piasevoli