Understanding Enhancement Levels

Deep dive into Epochly's progressive enhancement system.

Overview

Level	Name	Mechanism	Benefit
0	Monitor	Profiling	Baseline metrics
1	Threading	Thread pool	I/O concurrency
2	JIT	Compilation	CPU loop speedup
3	Full	Parallelism	Multi-core utilization
4	GPU	CUDA	Massive parallelism

Automatic Progression

Start at Level 0 (Monitor)
    ↓
Detect I/O-bound → Level 1
    ↓
Detect CPU-bound loops → Level 2
    ↓
Detect parallelizable work → Level 3
    ↓
Detect large arrays + GPU → Level 4

Performance Characteristics

Level	Best For	Typical Speedup
0	Profiling	1x (baseline)
1	I/O-bound tasks	~1.0x
2	JIT Compilation	58–193x
3	Heavy CPU parallel	8–12x
4	GPU array operations	7–70x

Fallback Conditions

Level	Fallback Condition	Falls Back To
4	No GPU available	Level 3
3	Too few data items	Level 2
2	JIT compilation fails	Level 1
1	Threading overhead too high	Level 0