Finally, I really dislike the author stating that "Unfortunately, the paper was nearly unintelligible!". I've taken a quick look at it, and it is immediately clear that the authors put a great deal of effort into it. Further, it looks quite packed, but perfectly organized and written in a clear-enough language...
It does not matter how much effort is put or how clearly is a paper written, to a someone without proper background it will always sound unintelligible. Put yourself in a position of a person who never studied formal languages theory and try to read it. It is utterly impossible. I do not say that it is a bad thing (had researchers needed to put everything in layman's terms, they would not have much time for actual research left), it is just understandable.
Yeah, I totally understand that the paper must be very hard to catch for someone without a minimal background on formal languages.
However, the author said that it is uninteligible, implying that nobody can understand it, and then supports this idea by elevating the guy who actually understood and implemented it in his spare time to a wizard status.
Discrediting someone's work that much is plain wrong as I see it, even more if you are using it to claim "100x speedups" in your project.
It does not matter how much effort is put or how clearly is a paper written, to a someone without proper background it will always sound unintelligible. Put yourself in a position of a person who never studied formal languages theory and try to read it. It is utterly impossible. I do not say that it is a bad thing (had researchers needed to put everything in layman's terms, they would not have much time for actual research left), it is just understandable.