From: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Date: Mon, 08 Jun 2009 21:10:18 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/3] automatically skip away from broken commits
Message-ID: <4A2D7E3A.9060701@zytor.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vzlcixwue.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano wrote:
> "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> writes:
> 
>> The advantage of that -- and I have to admit I don't know if it will
>> ever matter in practice -- is that using an actual PRNG:
>>
>> a) is less likely to get into pathological capture behaviors.
>> b) doesn't make people think later that there is something magic to the
>>    arbitrary chosen numbers.
> 
> My gut feeling agrees with you that both are likely to be true; these are
> good points.
> 
> Christian, what do you think?

Note: I do believe we should keep the obvious optimization of "if there
are no skip points in the plausible range, use the best point."  We
don't want a 39% increase in bisect time when not using skip.

	-hpa