Invisible a écrit :
> It seems we have reached an age where the complexity class of an
> algorithm is almost irrelevant, and the only important property is
> the specific low-level details of exactly how the algorithm has been
> implemented on a specific hardware platform.
> 
> This is the antithesis of high-level programming.

Actually the complexity class of the algorithm remains exactly as
relevant because it just says how the computation time asymptotically
evolves as the data gets bigger. The optimization described here do not
change that I believe. Just the multiplicative constant in front, which
in practice is of course important as well ;-)

-- 
Vincent

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