Fast poker hand evaluation via hardware synthesis and bitslicing

kept by starrynomad sep 27

Using hardware synthesis and bitslicing, the author generates fast C/WebGPU poker hand evaluators for Hold'em and Omaha, achieving up to 100× speedup over table‑based methods.

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