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Article author here. I agree with your point, I shouldn't have been so cautious. I consistently observed people being faster when using debuggers and I wanted t
by flavianh 10y ago
Article author here. I agree with your point, I shouldn't have been so cautious. I consistently observed people being faster when using debuggers and I wanted to give it a test on this problem. Most people don't see that they can get a significant speedup in using debuggers, so that sentence wanted to give a sense on how much quicker you can be. I'd be happy to hear of a better way to convince a non-debugger user that he could have debugged this code faster with a debugger!
- sixhobbits 10y agoWell I was convinced :) If it were me, I'd probably just remove the mention of significance -- or if you have more people and some time you can probably set up a proper experiment, control for some confounds and you'll probably get significant results.