I was thinking about this problem recently, primarily around a service for outsourcing the optimisation of functions (e.g. inner loops). For this it would be u

I was thinking about this problem recently, primarily around a service for outsourcing the optimisation of functions (e.g. inner loops). For this it would be useful to be able to define unit tests and set execution time limits. Done well, this is a kind of part solution to problem 6 "Bring Back Moore's Law" of Paul Graham's Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas: http://paulgraham.com/ambitious.html http://paulgraham.com/ambitious.html