> Despite the fact that everyone (including the authors of the original GJK algorithm) knows that you don't actually need to do a square-root to compare distances..
Academia's purpose is to produce research, typically measured in publications per unit time. Optimizing one paper leads to a global reduction in the size of the literature by pruning opportunities for subsequent research, harming the overall performance of the system.
Academia's purpose is to produce research, typically measured in publications per unit time. Optimizing one paper leads to a global reduction in the size of the literature by pruning opportunities for subsequent research, harming the overall performance of the system.