As I've thought about what you wrote, Nick, the more I like it. As you say, it
won't work for every block -- but there are certain blocks that would benefit
from doing "in-place" computations, avoiding the extra 1 or 2 buffer copies per
call to "work". And, the implementation needs to be trans
On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 7:45 AM, Michael Dickens wrote:
> On Aug 30, 2011, at 9:34 AM, Tom Rondeau wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 8:55 PM, Marcus D. Leech
> wrote:
> >> One idea, which I credit to a conversation I had with Frank Brickle some
> >> months ago, is the ability to synthesize a ne
On Aug 30, 2011, at 9:34 AM, Tom Rondeau wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 8:55 PM, Marcus D. Leech wrote:
>> One idea, which I credit to a conversation I had with Frank Brickle some
>> months ago, is the ability to synthesize a new block using a collection
>> of sub-blocks, and have it be "effic
