brain farts

[stan.distortion]

Last time I was looking at vdrift there where changes made to allow a table of values to be used for spring and damper rates. Did this work out ok? Did it have a negative or positive effect on system load?
I'm asking because I had a few thoughts on the tire calculations and they are getting some attention at the mo. Mainly this was to pre-calculate values for either points or bands around the tire and apply ware, temp, load etc. values to them to get current grip values based on how many of those points (or what amount of band) made up the contact patch.
The idea was to have the pacejka calculations done at startup to reduce processor load at the cost of memory and allow any amount of extra tweeking to be done with them at the cost of even more memory.
No idea how much load these calculations create or if this would be any faster, noting it down just in case its any use.
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