[m-dev.] Summer Student Report

[Samrith UONG]

On 1/11/06, Ralph Becket <rafe at cs.mu.oz.au> wrote:
> Hi Peter,
>
> Peter Ross, Tuesday, 10 January 2006:
> > It's not clear to me if your GA code for finding the best set of
> > options would work for any Mercury program.
>
> What makes you think it's dependent on the program being tested?  The
> Mercury code just slurps up the results of the previous generation and
> outputs new sets of flags to try in the next generation.  It's the shell
> script (which Sam is writing now) that will be responsible for compiling
> and running programs.
>

It should also be fairly simple to modify the shell script to work
with any arbitrary program.  The program currently uses the benchmark
programs in "benchmarks" under CVS.

Regards,
Sam.

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