A Fuzzer for the Toy Optimizer(bernsteinbear.com)
30 points by surprisetalk 5 days ago | 3 comments
r9295 4 days ago
Those interested in testing optimizers may have a look at equivalence modulo testing, a fascinating research field:

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2666356.2594334

ashwinnair99 3 hours ago
Fuzzing your own optimizer before shipping it is the kind of thing that sounds obvious in hindsight and almost nobody does upfront.
cinntaile 4 days ago
It would have been nice if the article explained what an optimizer is in this case?
tekknolagi 3 days ago
I will add "compiler" before "optimizer" and link to the toy optimizer series
cinntaile 3 days ago
Thanks! I had to go to the rest of your site to make sense of it so that seems like the right approach.