solidity/tools/yulPhaser/FitnessMetrics.h

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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 <tools/yulPhaser/Program.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) = 0;
};

/**
 * Abstract base class for fitness metrics that return values based on program size.
 *
 * The class provides utilities for optimising programs according to the information stored in
 * chromosomes.
 *
 * It can also store weights for the @a CodeSize metric. It does not do anything with
 * them because it does not actually compute the code size but they are readily available for use
 * by derived classes.
 */
class ProgramBasedMetric: public FitnessMetric
{
public:
	explicit ProgramBasedMetric(
		Program _program,
		size_t _repetitionCount = 1
	):
		m_program(std::move(_program)),
		m_repetitionCount(_repetitionCount) {}

	Program const& program() const { return m_program; }
	size_t repetitionCount() const { return m_repetitionCount; }

	Program optimisedProgram(Chromosome const& _chromosome) const;

private:
	Program m_program;
	size_t m_repetitionCount;
};

/**
 * Fitness metric based on the size of a specific program after applying the optimisations from the
 * chromosome to it.
 */
class ProgramSize: public ProgramBasedMetric
{
public:
	using ProgramBasedMetric::ProgramBasedMetric;
	size_t evaluate(Chromosome const& _chromosome) override;
};

}