From my experience in this area: - There are companies which would be willing to pay large amounts of money (more than he's asking for) for the speedups he's p

From my experience in this area: - There are companies which would be willing to pay large amounts of money (more than he's asking for) for the speedups he's promising - There are other similar efforts underway (such as ours) which have implemented some of his ideas and the gains are much smaller than he anticipates (for real code, microbenchmarks are another story)