[yorwba]

I think the literature on instruction scheduling might also be relevant for build order planning. You have a set of things to build (= instructions to execute) in the shortest amount of time, using the available production facilities (= execution units). Except in most games you can build additional factories, which doesn't really have an equivalent in CPUs.

[philipov]

> which doesn't really have an equivalent in CPUs.

But it does have an equivalent in scalable cloud infrastructure, where you can literally download more RAM, cores, etc.

[thomasmarcelis]

An additional difficulty is that the fastest way to achieve a build/goal often means you are weak/exposed at crucial moments in the game

[posterboy]

> in most games you can build additional factories

You can't just buy addition execution units? Sure there are limiting factors - in games as well.

[yorwba]

Which scheduler automatically inserts instructions to add more ALUs to its CPU? ;)

[posterboy]

Well, I did take a step back from the instruction pipeline analogy, but it's still covered by operations research and mathematical optimization.

The cost of waking a sleeping CPU core is perhaps comparable to the cost of building a factory in-game. Whereas, building a ton of factories that can't be saturated by the incoming cash money is comparable to building a superscalar processor architecture that can't be saturated by the cache memory.