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digitalmars.D.learn - Is it possible to generate a pool of random D or D inline assembler

reply Enjoys Math <enjoysmath gmail.com> writes:
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.
Jul 18 2017
next sibling parent Adam D. Ruppe <destructionator gmail.com> writes:
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.
Jul 18 2017
prev sibling next sibling parent Sebastien Alaiwan <ace17 free.fr> writes:
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 :-) ).
Jul 18 2017
prev sibling parent WhatMeForget <kheaser gmail.com> writes:
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?
Jul 19 2017