[Icfp04-discuss] Ant optimizers?

[Mario Storti]

>>>>> On Thu, 10 Jun 2004 20:35:58 +0200, 
>>>>>      Michael Radziej <icfp at icfp.m1.spieleck.de> said:

> 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 ;-)

You can get some kind of `state' in the ant brain by duplicating code,
so that if you write shorter code you can get a larger brain state. 

Mario

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