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The velodyne_description gazebo plugin can be accelerated with the GPU option. You will have to install the latest Gazebo, instead of the one that ships with ROS by default.

The velodyne_laserscan package can be used as an alternative to pointcloud_to_laserscan to extract one ring of a Velodyne PointCloud2 message as a LaserScan message. This is likely more computationally efficient.

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