I do not know a lot about this ... but I do know that recognition of streams offers a serious opportunity for hardware parallelism. Think of a monster, programmable to the bit level comparator. Toss in a little hierarchy. NSA has been running stuff like this for decades.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/19/technology/19compute.html?ex=1339905600&en=a6295869208a1066&ei=5088 BobLQ -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
