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["Max" <>]

>Hi Stephen,
>
>I introduced these new items, because it was clear that filtered kernels

Hi Peter,

How are 'filtered' kernels different from 'standard' kernels(besides that you 
mentioned here)?

Thanks
Max

>are inefficient with the old ones. The new ones allow efficient
>filtering. Since I mostly wanted to speed up Cartesian kernels and
>therefore allow handling of double coordinates, I write about it at a
>seemingly strange place of the documentation. It's in the user manual
>under File I/O.
>
>BTW, do you compile with -DNDEBUG and -O2? That usually gives a big
>efficiency boost.
>
>Peter
>