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And it all depends on how you define "bug." Misallocating memory? Use after free? Off-by-one? Probably cheap to fix even in production. A misunderstood or mis
by throwawayboise 5y ago
And it all depends on how you define "bug."
Misallocating memory? Use after free? Off-by-one? Probably cheap to fix even in production.
A misunderstood or missed requirement? Sure, that could be very expensive if it affects a data structure or some other interface with other systems that then also have to change. But that goes beyond what I normally think of as a "bug".
- AndrewDucker 5y agoThat depends on how expensive it is to get your code into production, how many other dependencies need to move in lockstep, how much manual regression testing there is, etc. Fixing a ten-second bug on my PC might easily be 100x cheaper than organising a release.