squeeze out some performance

[Mark Lawrence]

On 06/12/2013 16:52, John Ladasky wrote:
> On Friday, December 6, 2013 12:47:54 AM UTC-8, Robert Voigtländer wrote:
>
>> I try to squeeze out some performance of the code pasted on the link below.
>> http://pastebin.com/gMnqprST
>
> Several comments:
>
> 1) I find this program to be very difficult to read, largely because there's a whole LOT of duplicated code.  Look at lines 53-80, and lines 108-287, and lines 294-311.  It makes it harder to see what this algorithm actually does.  Is there a way to refactor some of this code to use some shared function calls?
>

A handy tool for detecting duplicated code here 
http://clonedigger.sourceforge.net/ for anyone who's interested.

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Mark Lawrence