From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Harald Hanche-Olsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs seems awfully unstable on OS X lately Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2012 17:59:59 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <20120914.175959.658911417969975672.hanche@math.ntnu.no> References: <20120914.172402.1021878788294803882.hanche@math.ntnu.no> <87k3vwipe3.fsf@wanadoo.es> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1347640897 15207 80.91.229.3 (14 Sep 2012 16:41:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2012 16:41:37 +0000 (UTC) Cc: darthandrus@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: ofv@wanadoo.es Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 14 18:41:40 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1TCYxR-0001eJ-L7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 14 Sep 2012 18:41:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60723 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TCYJk-0007bY-DH for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 14 Sep 2012 12:00:32 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:48806) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TCYJP-0006uD-9J for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Sep 2012 12:00:18 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TCYJE-0002j7-W2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Sep 2012 12:00:05 -0400 Original-Received: from hylle01.itea.ntnu.no ([129.241.56.100]:58149) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TCYJE-0002iu-Os for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Sep 2012 12:00:00 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hylle01.itea.ntnu.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id E933331E023 for ; Fri, 14 Sep 2012 17:59:56 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at hylle01.itea.ntnu.no Original-Received: from anne.math.ntnu.no (anne.math.ntnu.no [129.241.15.150]) by hylle01.itea.ntnu.no (Postfix) with SMTP id 7AEEE31E016 for ; Fri, 14 Sep 2012 17:59:56 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: (qmail 7663 invoked from network); 14 Sep 2012 15:59:56 -0000 Original-Received: from gauss.math.ntnu.no (HELO localhost) (hanche@129.241.15.58) by anne.math.ntnu.no with ESMTPA; 14 Sep 2012 15:59:56 -0000 In-Reply-To: <87k3vwipe3.fsf@wanadoo.es> X-URL: http://www.math.ntnu.no/~hanche/ X-Mailer: Mew version 6.5 on Emacs 24.1.50 / Mule 6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 129.241.56.100 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:153300 Archived-At: [=D3scar Fuentes (2012-09-14 15:40:36 UTC)] > Bisecting across N revisions requires approximately ln N steps, so don'= t > be afraid of long lists of revisions :-) I'm aware of the math (log with base 2 seems a better match than ln). The problem is more the constant in front of the logarithm; i.e., since I am not too sure how much testing is required to accept a certain revision as good, doing it about log 500 times still seems like it could take a while. - Harald