General Writing Notes

[ethanpailes]

Make sure to explain why scan are so much better than skips.

Talk about how supprizing the speed of scans was.

For the implementation section:

• Don't dwell too much on exactly how I wrote the code.
• Talk about the PikeVM back-end
• Talk about the bounded backtracker

Have a draft of the graphs to provide for the paper.

For each optimization:

• Here is why we do it
• Here is when it is applicable
• How big of an improvement can it provide
• What evidence if any do we have for this

TODO: talk about the following optimizations: Aho-Corasick scanning, .* scan-end optimization.

Don't talk about the PikeVM that much, but mention it.