However, while a treaty without targets may end up resembling a football match without goal posts, it would not necessarily make the exercise a complete waste of time.

In many cases if we don't have time for this whole process, we often end up doing nothing when realistically we could have fit in some form of exercise in by taking a more balanced approach.

When I first started this exercise to examine the effectiveness of Hotspot applied lock optimizations, I figured it would take a couple hours of my time and in the end I've have a useful blog entry.