Herbie Without Iterations

This proposal suggests a radically different way Herbie could work, making use of high-quality oracle-free methods of evaluating error. This new method would make Herbie simpler, faster, and possibly better, while (I hope) maintaining all the things we currently like about Herbie. This new Herbie would use egg/egglog much more heavily than today, and the greedy improvement loop would be gone.…