I told the organizer he probably didn't want me because didn't believe in the project. He said that would be o.k., but his real problem was that nobody wanted to speak for it, but nobody wanted to speak against it in public for fear of some sort of retaliation. If anybody knows please do say. They have been very helpful with any problems I've had and consistently so. I think you'll likely find them responsive to your problems as well.
Implementation has to be extremely efficient.
The executable was almost twice as fast. I suspect that running MAS with a larger set of data and a more demanding set of operations would result in a noticeably higher increase in speed of the executable over the melted version. You can check it out yourself, if you like.