Thinking about it more, Daniel Lemire publishes very applied algorithmic stuff: https://lemire.me/en/#publications https://lemire.me/en/#publications A lot of

Thinking about it more, Daniel Lemire publishes very applied algorithmic stuff: https://lemire.me/en/#publications https://lemire.me/en/#publications A lot of his work is in the journal "Experimental Algorithmics", so I guess there are a substantial number of people working in this way. I don't know this field very well, and I don't know if there are general principles that have been extracted from their work.