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		cpeterso on July 25, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Automatically fixing bugs in C programs with Genet... A more tractable problem is genetic Acovea (Analysis of Compiler Options via Evolutionary Algorithm), a genetic algorithm to find the "best" optimization CFLAGS for compiling programs with gcc. Unfortunately, the Acovea project is no longer maintained. http://web.archive.org/web/20101223023921/http://www.coyoteg... I've been told that Intel's compiler performance team has investigated similar genetic algorithms.

InclinedPlane on July 25, 2011 [–]

Such a hugely promising area of research. Also consider something even finer grained, adjusting optimization options on individual blocks of code at run-time or through instrumented binaries using genetic algorithms. It could revolutionize optimization.

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