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From: dan-hankins@cup.portal.com (Daniel B Hankins)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Clever programming tricks wanted
Message-ID: <13522@cup.portal.com>
Date: 14 Jan 89 01:15:40 GMT
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Re a 'superoptimizer' to optimize a function to the shortest sequence of
machine instructions:

     This is fairly simple.  Construct a genetic algorithm in which the
survival function is:

      code length / sum-of-squares distance from real function

     The genetic string itself would of course be the machine code.  This
should come up with a very good answer quite rapidly.


Dan Hankins