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Re: git-rev-list: "--bisect" flag

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DLDavid Lang <david.lang@digitalinsight.com>
Date
Jun 19, 2005, 05:05 UTC
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On Sat, 18 Jun 2005, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> The performance problem seems to really be pretty theoretical: I can
> bisect the developemnt from 2.6.12-rc2 to current head in 0.59 seconds, so
> it's not like it's horribly slow for something like a couple of months
> worth of development.

if it takes you about as long to type the command (and scan it to make sure you didn't mistype it) as it does to execute you don't have a performance problem :-)

David Lang
-- 
There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies.
  -- C.A.R. Hoare
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  3. Jan HarkesJun 19, 2005
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  5. Linus TorvaldsJun 19, 2005
  6. Linus TorvaldsJun 19, 2005
  7. David LangJun 19, 2005
  8. Linus TorvaldsJun 19, 2005
  9. Jon SeymourJun 19, 2005
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  11. Linus TorvaldsJun 19, 2005
  12. Ingo MolnarJun 19, 2005
  13. Linus TorvaldsJun 19, 2005
  14. Jon SeymourJun 19, 2005
  15. Linus TorvaldsJun 20, 2005
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