Why folding?

Posted by Paul Korm
Jun 20, 2018 at 11:09 AM

I’m indifferent to “folding”—a concept that I suspect is not simple. But clearly many confederates here enjoy or even demand folding in their software. Since a simple forum search here does not reveal, among the hundreds of mentions of “folding”, a topic debating “why folding”, I propose this thread.

So, for you: “why folding”? What are the benefits / detriments? How is “folding” best implemented in software? Is there even an analog of “folding” in the physical world.