Core War Programming
Based on the understanding of Core War strategies, a programmer can create a warrior to achieve certain goals. The warrior is saved in ASCII format, with a ".red" extension. Revolutionary ideas come once in a while; most of the time, however, programmers utilize the published warriors to get some ideas. Using optimizers such as OptiMax or core-step optimizer tools, a more compact and efficient warrior can be created.
Warriors can also be generated by Genetic Algorithms or Genetic Programming. Programs that integrate this evolutionary technique are also known as Core War Evolvers. Several small and fast evolvers were introduced by Core War community but were more focused on tiny or nano Core War settings. The latest evolver with significant success was µGP which produced nano and tiny KOTHs. Nevertheless, evolutionary strategy still needs to prove its effectiveness in bigger hills (9000 or more cores).
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