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The insight is that 32-bit space is so cheap to exhaustively explore now that you don’t need to resort to possible misses through sampling or spend the effort t
by swatcoder 4y ago
The insight is that 32-bit space is so cheap to exhaustively explore now that you don’t need to resort to possible misses through sampling or spend the effort to make and verify a smart way of sampling. Just brute force the darn thing and be done.
- supernova87a 4y agoAh, I see, for a test that you'll only run once or rarely, might as well!
- DougBTX 4y agoNo no no! That’s really the realisation they’re pushing at, this is fine for routine tests too! In this almost ten year old post the runtime was ~90s, which isn’t too painful. On some threads here, times on modern hardware are quoted as milliseconds or less. The takeaway might be more: spend time to optimise testing everything, rather than spending time optimising the selection of the subset to test. Massive caveat of course is that some search spaces are just big, but 32bit space shouldn’t be considered big any more.
- supernova87a 4y agoThanks for the point!