On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 8:22 PM, Ants Aasma <ants@cybertec.at> wrote:
> I might give it a shot later this cycle as I have familiarized my self
> with the problem domain anyway. I understand the appeal of staying
> with what we have, but this would cap the speedup at 4x and has large
> caveats with the extra lookup tables. A 28x speedup might be worth the
> extra effort.
I agree. However, on the flip side, a bird in the hand is worth two
in the bush. A patch that just does the same thing faster is likely
to be less controversial than changing the algorithm, and does not
preclude changing the algorithm later.
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