True. I've seen some interesting work on the latter case that produces upper and lower bounds for time to an acceptable solution but so far it seems to be lim

True. I've seen some interesting work on the latter case that produces upper and lower bounds for time to an acceptable solution but so far it seems to be limited in it's application to real world tasks. Missing the global max less of an issue, an acceptable level of fitness is generally all that's required for most applications. Though I guess there are several tasks for which a global max would be useful.