>
>
> True, if that's all you ever want to do with that system.  I still think
> it's a bad habit though.
>
> I don't know. I've had some time to think about it, I think the bad habit
may actually be on the other side of that. I think it's another variation
of "I do it this way because this the way I've always done it".
I think the bad habit was mine, Not informing myself of all the options and
making a judgment based on data.

I believe it was Donald Knuth that said "Premature optimization is the root
of all evil." Probably a bit of hyperbole, but definitely applicable to
this project. I'm sure the math could be optimized to allow the processor
to spend 99.997% of it's time waiting instead of 99% Not a meaningful
difference. I think back to all the projects I've done that I did spend the
time to optimize the math, I wonder how many of them really needed it.
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