5 people 14d8587c9c feat(genetic): make the fitness cache size configurable (#1376) ...

The per-run fitness cache of the GENETIC optimizer is unbounded. It
grows with individuals x generations (~110k keys at 300 x 400, about
1.1 kB each, 1.6 kB with an EV) and adds 120-170 MB to the peak memory
of a run, while only 6-15 % of the lookups hit. On 512 MB boards this
is the largest part of the optimizer's memory.

Add optimization.genetic.fitness_cache_max_entries:

- None (default): unbounded, the previous behaviour.
- 0: no cache; every genome is evaluated.
- N > 0: at most N keys. The cache is then an OrderedDict and evicts
  the oldest key first (FIFO, O(1)); LRU would cost bookkeeping on
  every hit for a cache that rarely hits.

A cache hit returns exactly what the deterministic evaluation would
return, so the plan for a fixed seed is identical with any setting.

Co-authored-by: Christin <christin@BigBrother.bikini.bottom.zone>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-authored-by: Andreas <drbacke@gmx.de>

2026-10-11 09:19:33 +02:00

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