This book, is supposed to teach methods of numerical computing that are practical, efficient, and (insofar as possible) elegant.

Short answer: no. Longer answer: it depends on what do you mean by equivalent.

ACOVEA (Analysis of Compiler Options via Evolutionary Algorithm) implements a genetic algorithm to find the “best” options for compiling programs with the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) C and C++ compilers. “Best”, in this context, is defined as those options that produce the fastest executable program from a given source code. Acovea is a C++ framework that can be extended to test other programming languages and non-GCC compilers.