Still optimizing…

Spent the first ~7 hours trying to find microoptimizations and each one was either a wash or worse somehow. The compiler works in mysterious ways.
At some point, I just gave up and let Claude have a go at the optimizing. Surprisingly it actually came up with a lot of interesting optimization techniques and solutions that I definitely couldn’t have come up with on my own. But it found so much, that the whole diff adds 5k lines of code. So now I’ll be cleaning up, testing, and maybe further optimizing that diff…