From: Karl Hasselström Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2008 07:17:50 GMT Subject: Re: git bisect on multiple cores Message-ID: <20080409071750.GA23211@diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk> In-Reply-To: On 2008-04-08 12:58:47 +0200, A B wrote: > git bisect is really cool. I use it for the first time. Just a > thought, if you have a multiple core computer, can't you make git > build new versions in the background while testing the previuos > version? Alright, if you build 2 versions, one of them will never be > tested, but you will perhaps save some time by letting it build in > the background? Adding parallelism to a binary search scales very badly -- I'd say about logarithmically, but I haven't thought hard about it. If it's possible to use the extra cores to speed up the build+test cycle, that's vastly preferable. -- Karl Hasselström, kha@treskal.com www.treskal.com/kalle