> How easy would it be maintain or enhance this kind of code? Would you get emails like "...we have a few bugs in the 16-way interleaved multithreaded binary se

> How easy would it be maintain or enhance this kind of code? Would you get emails like "...we have a few bugs in the 16-way interleaved multithreaded binary search code, who wants quickly get those cleaned up...". Harder than the naive binary search, but that's a good thing, because the guy who maintains the library code to do these parallel searches likes hard problems in low level programming.