In these commits TheFrenchLeaf/CMVS-PMVS@8915186360259f155819391935b98e854d3c467 & TheFrenchLeaf/CMVS-PMVS@2e75080f15334fe1a3042f3d59fc853e77a13837, Pierre Moulon introduced a speed up from Nghia ho's RunSFM (http://nghiaho.com/?page_id=253). More recently, in RunSFM 1.4.3, Nghia ho reverted these changes because they seem produce a less dense point cloud.