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Originally Posted by dcb
I find most flaws in over-engineered things.
Before frolicking down the optimization path, one really needs to have a solid benchmark suite, to know if all the effort really made any difference.
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Hehe... I meant in theory. Something so simple as a hammer is sure to have fewer flaws than an electromagnetic nail shooter. But you sure could optimize the hell out of that shooter.
Most certainly the thing needs to be smoothed out before optimizing in most cases. It seems that Paul is looking at a pretty big gain from relatively easy picking fruit by going from diodes to synch rec - it is just wise to look at the further options available and scale back to "bang for the buck" level of optimization. Heck, the efficiency gain from the finer points of hundreds of hours of synch rec development could probably be matched by just using better wires.