Subject: coresize/intelligent programming... From: S_BLEYER@rzmain.rz.uni-ulm.de (Mike Bleyer) Organization: University of Ulm, Germany Date: 13 Dec 91 15:03:33 GMT Message-ID: <1991Dec13.150333.4283@wega.rz.uni-ulm.de> Hey, here's another idea on encouraging "intelligent" programs and preventing small, "dumb" bombers: Make the core size change at random ! My program Slowdown (see below) for example, was specifically designed for a core size of 8000 cells. Any other sizes (especially smaller ones) could have desastrous effects, it could destroy itself... So if the core size would be unpredictable ( in a certain range of course - lets say +-500), programs would have to behave much more intelligent (larger) because they couldn't calculate with the core size to just bomb through the core ! By the way, here's Slowdown1, so everyone can look at it: (real programmers need no comments, the code speaks for itself) ;redcode ;Name slowdown1 ;Author Mike Bleyer start: mov split,@count sub #6 , count jmn start, count bomb: mov count,