As the author of the Cuckoo Cycle PoW https://github.com/tromp/cuckoo https://github.com/tromp/cuckoo I don't recall any such dependence. I don't see how the op

As the author of the Cuckoo Cycle PoW https://github.com/tromp/cuckoo https://github.com/tromp/cuckoo I don't recall any such dependence. I don't see how the operations described in the paper would benefit a Cuckoo Cycle solver, which in essense looks like https://github.com/tromp/cuckoo/blob/master/doc/simplesolve https://github.com/tromp/cuckoo/blob/master/doc/simplesolve