CTFE Status 2

[Stefan Koch via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 6 June 2017 at 16:39:07 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 06, 2017 at 02:03:46AM +0000, jmh530 via 
> Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 6 June 2017 at 00:46:00 UTC, Stefan Koch wrote:
>> > 
>> > Time to find this: roughly 2 weeks.
>> > 
>> 
>> Damn. That's some commitment.
>
> 2 weeks is not bad for subtle bugs in complex code like this 
> one. In my day job I've seen bugs that took 2 *months* to 
> figure out. One of them involved a rare race condition that can 
> only be reproduced under very specific circumstances, and it 
> took a long time and a lot of guesswork before a coworker and 
> myself discovered the exact combination that triggered the bug, 
> thereby leading to the subtle problem in a piece of code that 
> looked perfectly innocuous before then.
>
>
> T

Wow, 2 Months.
And I always feel slow, when a bug takes more then a week.
Luckily my architecture is designed to be completely 
deterministic and reproducibly.
So things like race conditions cannot hit me.
... Thank god for that.