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What if we have wild mutations AND exceptionally good exception handling?

• ajuc 12y ago
  We do. We have 2 mechanism for this. First mechanism - to go into production you have to pass unit tests (race to the egg). It's only 1 cell, so either it works or not, and if you were the fastest you probably didn't have most of the really bad mutations. Then after you are in production you run million copies of the code, and to be safe against mutations there's sth like erlang exception handling - if sth's wrong kill the process, start a new one. The problem is - sometimes the process gets so wrong it doesn't respond to kill signal.
  • sumitviii 12y ago
    >if you were the fastest you probably didn't have most of the really bad mutations How did they arrive at this conclusion?
    • ajuc 12y ago
      The mutations that makes your cell die will prevent you from being the first to the egg. The mutations that makes you immobile - the same. The mutation that mess up with your instincts, and reactions to chemical enzymes - same (you won't go the right way). And so on. It's a little like unit testing - it checks all the basic routines.