[Change] ACID: reduce size of surf tests

Signed-off-by: Oleg Komarov <o.komarov11@imperial.ac.uk>
fix typos in comments
Merge pull request #452 from PeterPablo/fix_typos

fix typos in comments

Only comments, no tests needed
[Add/change] acidtest: speedup line endings conversion and link

Signed-off-by: oleg komarov <o.komarov11@imperial.ac.uk>
Merge pull request #447 from okomarov/reduceACID

[Change] ACID: reduce size of surf tests/

Only code-reviewed, not tested.
Merge remote-tracking branch 'okomarov/lineEndings'

Not tested since this is Windows-specific (via `ispc`) and I don't currently
have access to a Windows machine with MATLAB installed.
Visual inspection of the code was performed, however.