1. A computer system for storing and processing data in a manner that encourages parallel processing by one or more superscalar processors, the system comprising: a processor and memory configured to execute software instructions; a data storage component configured to store database data persistently between sessions of use of the system; a data normalization component configured to retrieve data stored by the data storage component and to load the retrieved data into memory in a normalized data representation that allows fast superscalar processing; an operation manager configured to manage requests to perform database operations on stored database data; a batch assembly component configured to identify batches of data that have control flow and data independence such that the batch includes parallelizable operations; an outlier identification component configured to identify data values in a batch of data that cannot be performed by a fast processing path that performs efficient superscalar processing; a fast operation component configured to provide instructions to a superscalar processor in a manner that allows parallel execution of the instructions by multiple functional units of the superscalar processor; a slow operation component configured to perform database operations on data within a batch that is not stored in the normalized data representation; and a result processing component configured to gather results from the fast operation component and slow operation component and return the results to an operation requestor.