Would you like to expand on why you think it shouldn&#x27;t be patented?<p>Architectural optimizations are often dismissed by outsiders as being &quot;obvious&quot;, but what they don&#x27;t see are all the other &quot;obvious&quot; ideas that don&#x27;t work for various subtle reasons. I worry that if you make these techniques unpatentable, they&#x27;d become trade secrets and nobody would publish them, and we&#x27;d be worse off as a community.