... color¹

The code segment generated for each internal node contains at least 21 lines - 5 lines for conditional expressions, 10 lines for braces, a line for error handling, and at least a line per condition.

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... architectures²

In this analysis, we ignore data alignment issues which would lead to even larger size of the structure.

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... performance³

Performance of quadtree is the time it takes to make a decision, should not be confused with performance penalty which is related to the accuracy of the quadtree-based decision function.

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... Pipeline),⁴

For more details on these algorithms, refer to [11]

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