[Libre-soc-dev] v3.1B prefix

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

On Mon, Dec 14, 2020 at 8:38 AM Jacob Lifshay <programmerjake at gmail.com> wrote:

> > *thinks*... do we have any level of confidence that the stats would be
> > high, here, i.e. would definitely produce good results?
> >
>
> I can't guarantee it, but I'd expect a properly designed genetic algorithm
> to give an encoding better than what we might design by hand.
>
> Note that the genetic algorithm would be deciding which instructions to
> include in the compressed encoding and which ones are left as 32-bit only.

i'm familiar with the principle, they're quite fun and effective.
RIES does the same, and samba's DOS codepage to unicode algorithms
were found using monte-carlo testing as well.

my feeling is: an intitial assessment we might as well just use a
couple of brute-force searches on one or two crude parameters.  this
would tell us a great deal, in a very short timeframe.  if that gets
to over say 18% just with that it's worth refining.

l.