Interpret the bits of the executable as a discrete-time signal (or alternatively, a base you like) and compute the FFT.
“One can FT anything—often meaningfully.”–John Tukey What’s the Fourier transform of a computer program?
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And what is the meaning of the result of such a process?
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Yeah that’s a good point. Probably gibberish unless there’s some sort of regular pattern going on in the executable. Wonder what would happen if we applied digital filters
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If you Fourier transform the code of an FT program, can that lead to a halting problem paradox?
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Given that programs are traditionally sets of characters, you would have the frequency distribution of each one, followed by frequency of words, sentences and so on. You could evaluate someone's code by the number of "if" "for" etc. Probably see if its declarative vs Imperative
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Instructions? Or sets of instructions? The results represent how heavily your code relies on the particular sets of instructions. If device handles that set of instructions poorly, that piece of code gonna run very slowly on that device.
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I’d guess it’s the actual execution order. The streams of commands across cores.
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I think it is being transformed to “WTF per second” domain.
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