Editing Core War (section)

===''Core War'' Programming===
With an understanding of ''Core War'' strategies, a programmer can create a warrior to achieve certain goals. Revolutionary ideas come once in a while; most of the time, however, programmers base their programs on already published warriors. Using optimizers such as OptiMax or core-step optimizer tools, a more effective warrior can be created.

Warriors can also be generated by [[genetic algorithm]]s or [[genetic programming]]. Programs that integrate this evolutionary technique are known as ''evolvers''. Several evolvers were introduced by the ''Core War'' community and tend to focus on generating warriors for smaller core settings. The latest evolver with significant success was ''μGP''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://github.com/squillero/microgp2/ |title=μGP (MicroGP v2) |access-date=2018-09-10 |last=Squillero |first=Giovanni |website=[[GitHub]]}}</ref><ref name="q133">{{cite journal | last=Corno | first=F. | last2=Sanchez | first2=E. | last3=Squillero | first3=G. | title=Evolving Assembly Programs: How Games Help Microprocessor Validation | journal=IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation | volume=9 | issue=6 | date=2005 | issn=1089-778X | doi=10.1109/TEVC.2005.856207 | pages=695–706 | url=https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/document?repid=rep1&type=pdf&doi=6026078bb5915689d4a4efcc26d541617f53182a}}</ref> which produced some of the most successful nano and tiny warriors. Nevertheless, evolutionary strategy still needs to prove its effectiveness on larger core settings.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://corewar.co.uk/vowk/alife9ac.pdf |title=An Evolutionary Approach Generates Human Competitive Corewar Programs |access-date=2023-05-27 |last=Vowk |first=Barkley |author2=Wait, Alexander |author3=Schmidt, Christian}}</ref>