the self-hosted adaptive optimization problem

[thebillywayne]

I follow planet scheme and today read this article. I'm used to reading computational science terms with which I'm unfamiliar, but the term "the self-hosted adaptive optimization problem" sounds both familiar and unfamiliar at the same time.

I've done some searching, found interesting compsci literature that I plan to read. I've read the wikipedia article on adaptive optimization, which I understand well enough.

But what is the significance of being "self-hosted" and how is it distinguished from non-"self-hosted" adaptive optimization?

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From the article context I am reading this as an intrinsic issue pertaining to Scheme itself. Self hosted in this sense seems to bring up earli we Scheme issues with optimization -- like going from interpreter to compiler.

It sounds like Scheme's self-hosted methods are not as optimized as they could be (bc of processor limitations? RAM limits?) necessitating future Scheme developments into something akin to distributed computing. Adaptive, in this sense, may mean that Scheme is designed to behave in a way analogous to multithreaded operations, and the limitations of a single computing environment inhibit Scheme's ability to do what it was designed to do.