State file (XML)_eac3

root element: eacirc_state

• generations_required
  number of generations planned to run/evolve
• generations_finished
  number of generation already evolved (0 for initial pre-evolution state)
• main_seed
  seed used for main random generator (which is used to seed the entire program)
  this is the ONLY source of randomness in the entire program
• current_galib_seed
  current seed used for GAlib (usually generated and set just before saving the state so that correct loading is possible)
• random_generators
  wrapper element for random generators
  • main_generator
    state of generator used for seeding generators (primary source of entropy)
  • galib_generator
    state of generator used for evolutionary stuff (GAlib reseeding, circuit initialization, mutation and crossover)
  • rndgen
    state of generator handling common requests for random
  • biasrndgen
    state of biased random generator
• project
  current project state, mostly project-specific, following 3 attributes are generated automatically by the framework
  • type
    project constant
  • description
    short, human-readable project description
  • loadable
    is the project state loadable/recoverable?

Structure of generators

Each generator element has 2 basic attibutes:

• type
  constant for generator type, used for parsing the generator
• description
  brief generator description in human-readable form

The list of generator-specific elements follow:

• original_seed
  seed used to initialize the generator at the beginning
• accumulator_state
  current state of generator specific entropy-holding values
  usually in form of decadic numbers separated by spaces
  • length
    length of the internal accumulator
  • position
    current position in internal accumulator, if needed
• qrng
  attributes related to quantum random data
  • true_qrng (attribute)
    1: using pre-generated quantum random number data
    0: not using pre-generated data (=> is pseudorandom MD5-based)
  • data_path
    path to pre-generated quantum random number data file, if they are used
  • file_index
    index of the QRND file currently used
• chance_for_one
  chance of generating one over zero in bias generator (0% - 100%)
• internal_rng
  internal sub-generator, if one is used (follows general generator structure again)