Is it okay to have theoretical analysis first in our report?

[ashleydavies]

Some elements of the theoretical analysis might come in useful to reference during the empirical analysis, for example:

Aspects you may wish to cover include:

Main processes and data flows
Data and control dependencies
...
Critical path and average parallelism
Asymptotic scaling with the most important parameters
Key bottlenecks which might limit scaling to many parallel tasks

Since it seems to be prompting us to take a wider look at the code base and document what's going on, I think it would be beneficial to have already explained this, so that when it comes to documenting the empirical analysis we can reference our explanations in the theoretical anlysis

Is this okay? Is any particular order enforced in the report?

[jjd06]

If your report will make more sense presented this way 'round then sure, go for it.