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The authors claim their algorithm is novel, but it actually had been a well known folklore technique for quite a while. For example it was used in Folly as earl
by ot 8y ago
The authors claim their algorithm is novel, but it actually had been a well known folklore technique for quite a while. For example it was used in Folly as early as Jan 2016:
https://github.com/facebook/folly/commit/b28186247104f8b90cfbe094d289c91f9e413317#diff-666bb7d0944159a9ea430bd54196be4a https://github.com/facebook/folly/commit/b28186247104f8b90cf...
- stephencanon 8y agoYeah, I definitely saw this technique in Intel sample code demonstrating use of BMI before HSW was released. Probably 2011, maybe 2012. That said, we worry too much about who the first person to have an idea was. Any idea worth having is come upon independently by many people, and putting the idea to work and communicating it to others are more valuable contributions anyway.