I have to say that this sounds like a good idea to me.

A few months ago I found a way to reduce a particular AI algorithm's memory usage from O(n) to O(1), but I've been bogged-down in irrelevant details when trying to implement this improved version.

I think I'll take SPJ's advice and write up a theoretical/motivational paper describing the improvement, and leave the actual implementation for afterwards.

I've been holding off writing up since I'm an amateur, and AI has a reputation for attracting cranks with hand-wavey conjectures :S