[Icfp04-discuss] Ant optimizers?

[Michael Radziej]

On Thu, Jun 10, Rares Ispas wrote:

> Such an optimizer will destroy the ant for sure, the ant's memory depends  
> on identical codes in different places to embedd state information, it is  
> the only working memory the ant has.

Why? If two states contain identical instructions with
identical jump addresses, they will of course behave identical and
the can be "compressed".

On the other side, it doesn't matter much how many states an ant has.
It won't make them any faster or smarter, just smaller ;-)

Michael