Feedback-driven optimization

[Robert Dewar]

> There's alot to read, and I've scanned a fair bit of it.  No one seems 
> to have tried anything as ambitious as what I have in mind, which, is 
> given all the preconceptions and experience available, come up with a 
> best expected strategy.  There are fairly straightforward recipes for  
> doing this, but I don't think anybody has actually tried them.  What 
> people *have* done is to use profiling to identify areas for increased  
> scrutiny, but with only limited success.

That's very far from true, and indicates that you should do a bit more "scanning".
Have you read for example the basic work on trace scheduling (and in particular
the Multiflow technology -- there was a reason that Intel paid millions of dollars
for access to this technology!)