There's a ton of variables feeding into the performance of your software. I've spent a lot of time trying to improve cache coherence, branch mispredictions, et

There's a ton of variables feeding into the performance of your software. I've spent a lot of time trying to improve cache coherence, branch mispredictions, etc... with very little to show for it. Asymptotic complexity is the best place to start. I thank academia for this 'naive' model.