On 2012-08-09, Richard Fateman <fateman at eecs.berkeley.edu> wrote:
> I think that running the test suite you are using on your machine and
> system is probably inadequate to demonstrate the improvement.
I suppose if the result had gone the other way, you wouldn't be so
picky.
> Running the simple f(10^6) test on my computer gives 46.50 seconds
> without the hack, and 43.58 with the hack, for a whopping 6%
> improvement.
Um, the test function of which you speak is even less (much less)
representative than the test suite.
> I know of no disadvantage to the change in location of the
> simplification program on the property list.
Introducing new code for no good reason has no benefit, and will
eventually cause confusion. Namely, "What is this doing here?"
FWIW
Robert Dodier