Re: Is it possible to generate a pool of random D or D inline assembler programs, run them safely?
On Tuesday, 18 July 2017 at 17:35:17 UTC, Enjoys Math wrote: The purpose of it is to make a real-time, short-lived function predictor. I'm genuinely curious. What is a function predictor used for?
Re: Is it possible to generate a pool of random D or D inline assembler programs, run them safely?
On Tuesday, 18 July 2017 at 17:35:17 UTC, Enjoys Math wrote: Without them crashing the app running them? Say by wrapping with try / catch? and, most probably a timeout, as you're certainly going to run into infinite loops. Reason is so I don't have to make my own VM. Why not reuse an existing one? Some of them are very simple: https://github.com/munificent/wren It will be a lot easier than trying to generate random *compilable* D programs ; and will avoid requiring a compilation step in your mutation loop (I know the D compiler is fast, but still :-) ).
Re: Is it possible to generate a pool of random D or D inline assembler programs, run them safely?
On Tuesday, 18 July 2017 at 17:35:17 UTC, Enjoys Math wrote: Without them crashing the app running them? Say by wrapping with try / catch? Run them in a separate process, so it can die independently.
Is it possible to generate a pool of random D or D inline assembler programs, run them safely?
Without them crashing the app running them? Say by wrapping with try / catch? You can assume that I've limited the opcode addresses to the program and/or the data section which I'll try to put right next to the code. Reason is so I don't have to make my own VM. I want to mutate computable functions in a genetic-algorithm style, so in order to include the full space of computable functions I need a full programming language, or a VM that includes conditional jump instructions. The purpose of it is to make a real-time, short-lived function predictor.
