Methods and apparatus for storage and translation of entropy encoded software embedded within a memory hierarchy

The method of claim 11, wherein breeding further comprises:

• randomly selecting a crossover point in a pair of seed mix masks identified as parent A and parent B;
• and
• producing an offspring mix mask by concatenating a leftmost set of bits from before the crossover point from either parent A or B and a rightmost set of bits starting from after the crossover point from the parent not used to select the leftmost set of bits.

The method of claim 11, further comprising:

• breeding based on a randomly selected crossover point in the pairs of seed mix masks.

The method of claim 11, wherein mutating further comprises:

• randomly inverting an individual bit in one of the pair of offspring mix masks to determine a mutated offspring mix mask;
• and
• replacing a seed mix mask in the seed population with the mutated offspring mix mask.

The method of claim 11, wherein the program includes boot code, operating system code, and multiple application programs.

The method of claim 11, further comprises:

• determining a fitness level for each seed mix mask in a seed population using a current cost of translation hardware associated with each seed mix mask, wherein a fitness level of a seed mix mask represents a level of benefit for providing a high level of compression.