That was probably a troll, but I'll bite. See, that's what I mean. Anyone can code a quick sort or a sobel filter. But when to avoid the sort in the first place

That was probably a troll, but I'll bite. See, that's what I mean. Anyone can code a quick sort or a sobel filter. But when to avoid the sort in the first place, or how to build an image processing pipeline for CPU,GPU,FPGA, asic and when to use each requires years of experience, its not just the algorithm, its the complication and maintainability and security of the resulting system as installed on the hardware