[bob1029]

An L1-resident algorithm can outperform one that needs to talk to DRAM each iteration by 100x or more. In terms of wall clock time, this can mean the difference between minutes and days.

Would you be willing to try a fleeting idea if it took 2 days to test? How about if we could bring that down to 15 minutes?

[munksbeer]

Ok, I think I get you now. This sentence was in context of the previous one, about an algorithm that never needs to leave L1.

I thought you were referring to some real world (I mean physical world) example of evolution finding efficiency in some manner.