I couldn’t find any reference to this having been submitted upstream. There was a discussion involving some similar approaches in 2010, but that didn’t seem to go anywhere either. I emailed one of the authors of this (after I found the implementation in his Github repository), but haven’t heard anything back yet.
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I couldn’t find any reference to this having been submitted upstream. There was a discussion involving some similar approaches in 2010, but that didn’t seem to go anywhere either. I emailed one of the authors of this (after I found the implementation in his Github repository), but haven’t heard anything back yet.