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The project is the brainchild of the inestimable Patrick Varilly, and the tool is 100-1000x faster(!!) than others. For our part, we worked with Patrick on how to make Delphy usable & accessible beyond the handful of PhDs who know the necessary command line incantations to run this kind of analysis.

While it's always nice to run faster, what's *actually* exciting about that is the way that it can change the way you work. It means trying things early instead of waiting for perfection. You can immediately identify overall trends, bad data, outliers, etc and fix these problems before the next run.

Instead of spending all your time cleaning data first, there's essentially no cost to taking a quick look and proceeding with your research. That's really powerful, because *all data is bad* and the pursuit of what passes for “good” is both time consuming and has its own kinds of badness.