From: David Kastrup Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 09:55:34 GMT Subject: Re: [RFH] hackday and GSoC topic suggestions Message-ID: <87sirn72w9.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> In-Reply-To: Christian Couder writes: > On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 9:50 AM, Jeff King wrote: > >> I think Google leaves it up to us to decide. I'd be OK with a project >> made of multiple small tasks, as I think it would be an interesting >> experiment. I'd rather not do all of them like that, though. And >> bonus points if they are on a theme that will let the student use the >> ramp-up time from one for another. > > Yeah, a student working on the "git bisect fix/unfixed" feature, could > fix git bisect testing too many merge bases, and if there is still > time work on moving more code from shell to C. In the context of programming tasks, "if there is still time" is a prime candidate for the successful application of branch prediction. -- David Kastrup