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I mostly use GUI-based debuggers (and profilers), but even in this case I found it often useful to pause the program at random times when it appears "stuck". M

I mostly use GUI-based debuggers (and profilers), but even in this case I found it often useful to pause the program at random times when it appears "stuck". Most of the time I don't event need to reach for a profiler proper.

082349872349872 2y ago
Random sampling is not only useful for quick and dirty debugging, but also for engineering nuclear bombs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolis–Hastings_algorithm#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolis–Hastings_algorithm#...
- kragen 2y ago
  few phenomena in daily life are either quicker or dirtier than a nuclear bomb
- mananaysiempre 2y ago
  Of course, a lot of that old neutron transport work is now used for ray tracing in cinema production. Metropolis (and MCMC is general) is one, and I also remember some sort of volumetric scattering thing as well.
olvy0 2y ago
Yes, exactly, I do this all the time. Only after having exhausted this, which I consider to be the low-hanging fruits of performance gains, do I start profiling code with an actual profiler.