The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Fuzzing for Porting Programs

Re:The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Fuzzing for Porting Pro... by lhmiles on Wednesday June 18, 2025 @02:55PM (#44312386)

Are you the author? You can speed things up and get better results sometimes by retrying the initial generation step many times in parallel, instead of the interactive rewrite thing.

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Re:The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Fuzzing for Porting Pro... by rjpower9000 on Wednesday June 18, 2025 @06:06PM (#44313681)

I'm the author. That's a great idea. I didn't explore that for this session but it's worth trying.

I didn't measure consistently, but I would guess 60-70% of the symbols ported easily, with either one-shot or trivial edits, 20% Gemini managed to get there but ended up using most of its attempts, and 10% it just struggled with.

The 20% would be good candidates for multiple generations & certainly consumed more than 20% of the porting time.

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