[Icfp04-discuss] Evolutionary Ants

[detlef at dpleiss.de]

On 9 Jun 2004 at 11:52, Jens Hauke wrote:

> Maybe try the same with less than 300 lines? I got much better results
> with very short ant programs (the search space is much smaller and
> good strategys dont need much code). The next improvement (i think):
> leave the goto's in each line nearly untouched to safe the program
> flow.

I guess 10000 random lines contain a lot of "dead strands", code that is never reached. 
I assume if running different 10000 lines random code programs through the optimizers 
as discussed lately you'll effectively get random size programs. 

I used to change just one line of code per generation. If such a change happens in dead 
code it effectively changes nothing. Then again in the other case it might activate a until-
then dead strand, so one line could make a big difference. 

Anyway, I'm going to try what happens if I change more than one line of code per 
generation. 

ciao - Det.