From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Silvio Levy Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Copy/paste issue. Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2012 08:44:08 -0700 Message-ID: <20120331154408.40E7F180CAB@neo.msri.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1333208663 19917 80.91.229.3 (31 Mar 2012 15:44:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2012 15:44:23 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: "Drew Adams" Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 31 17:44:22 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SE0TU-0001Wj-1x for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 31 Mar 2012 17:44:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48601 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SE0TT-0007ew-F5 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 31 Mar 2012 11:44:19 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:44112) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SE0TO-0007eG-0t for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 31 Mar 2012 11:44:15 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SE0TM-00004q-C9 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 31 Mar 2012 11:44:13 -0400 Original-Received: from spike.lmi.net ([66.117.140.17]:37875) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SE0TM-0008WG-6G for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 31 Mar 2012 11:44:12 -0400 Original-Received: from neo.msri.org (75-101-50-210.dsl.static.sonic.net [75.101.50.210]) by spike.lmi.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id A53DC154055; Sat, 31 Mar 2012 08:44:08 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by neo.msri.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 40E7F180CAB; Sat, 31 Mar 2012 08:44:08 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from neo.msri.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by neo.msri.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C8501809D3; Sat, 31 Mar 2012 08:44:08 -0700 (PDT) In-reply-to: Your message of Sat, 31 Mar 2012 08:14:01 -0700 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 66.117.140.17 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:84228 Archived-At: > This feeling gets reinforced by the fact that things seem to progress very > slowly with binary search, at first. Remind yourself of the story of the > inventor of chess and the king: In my experience binary search, while sometimes unavoidable, is far from logarithmic, because the contents interact with each other. At the simplest level, cutting a file in half typically cuts it in the middle of a function. Even if the functions are short and it's easy to break between functions, the remaining code may depend on the omitted code, so the division introduces new errors that have to be debugged. Silvio Levy Silvio