3.2.1 Partial versus Full Profiling
Observing that profiling for application kernels with a large
number of identical iterations is usually time-consuming, we
use partial profiling to save profiling cost. Thus, we limit the
number of iterations to v (vmin v w), and use this partial
execution to estimate the application global behavior. The
choice of v is a trade-off between profiling accuracy and cost.
When lowering v below a minimum threshold (platform
dependent), the estimation quality will not be acceptable