---
name: "runacovea"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "acovea"
version: "5.1.1-2"
release: "Debian 6.0 (Squeeze)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/runacovea"
---

# runacovea(1)

analysis of compiler options via evolutionary algorithms

## NAME

runacovea - analysis of compiler options via evolutionary algorithms

## SYNOPSIS

**runacovea** *\[options\]*

## DESCRIPTION

The **runacovea** command runs ACOVEA (Analysis of Compiler Options via Evolutionary Algorithm) implements a genetic algorithm to find the "best" options for compiling programs with the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) C and C++ compilers.  "Best," in this context, is defined as those options that produce the fastest executable program from a given source code.

Acovea is a C++ framework that can be extended to test other programming languages and non-GCC compilers.

This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the original program does not have a manual page. Instead, it has documentation in HTML format; see the files in /usr/share/doc/acovea/html.

## OPTIONS

Program options are documented in the HTML pages.

## AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Al Stone \<ahs3@debian.org\> for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).