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Re:Binary Search: A new implementation that is up to 25% faster by jhayward on Monday July 20, 2020 @11:01AM (#23898481)
This was somewhat the approach used in the ATLAS[1] linear algebra library. In the ATLAS case, systems were characterized through testing and a set of parameters generated. Then at installation time code was generated to match the system type using the given parameters.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatically_Tuned_Linear_Alg...

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