solidity/tools/yulPhaser/FitnessMetrics.h

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/*
This file is part of solidity.
solidity is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
solidity is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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*/
/**
* Contains an abstract base class representing a fitness metric and its concrete implementations.
*/
#pragma once
#include <tools/yulPhaser/Chromosome.h>
#include <cstddef>
namespace solidity::phaser
{
/**
* Abstract base class for fitness metrics.
*
* The main feature is the @a evaluate() method that can tell how good a given chromosome is.
* The lower the value, the better the fitness is. The result should be deterministic and depend
* only on the chromosome and metric's state (which is constant).
*/
class FitnessMetric
{
public:
FitnessMetric() = default;
FitnessMetric(FitnessMetric const&) = delete;
FitnessMetric& operator=(FitnessMetric const&) = delete;
virtual ~FitnessMetric() = default;
virtual size_t evaluate(Chromosome const& _chromosome) const = 0;
};
}