Re: git bisect on multiple cores

["Karl Hasselström" <kha@treskal.com>]

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.

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