/dev/caffeine » Uncategorized http://devcaffeine.com anything worth taking seriously is worth making fun of Thu, 24 Sep 2009 20:50:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Josh Bloch: nearly all binary searches are broken. http://devcaffeine.com/2006/06/07/josh-bloch-nearly-all-binary-searches-are-broken/ http://devcaffeine.com/2006/06/07/josh-bloch-nearly-all-binary-searches-are-broken/#comments Wed, 07 Jun 2006 17:18:16 +0000 cflipse http://blog.devcaffeine.com/2006/06/07/josh-bloch-nearly-all-binary-searches-are-broken/ Official Google Research Blog: Extra Extra – Read All About It! Nearly All Binary Searches and Mergesorts are Broken

Just … wow.

this thing has gone unnoticed for over 20 years. And in most cases, probably wouldn’t affect you, since integer overflow isn’t a huge problem for you “typical” application.

It only took a second for me to pick out what the bug was. But, that’s after having the exact line of code pointed out, and knowing it was wrong.. These things are insideous.

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Online bug reports are less than helpful. Oh well, there wasn’t much in the old incarnation that was really worth holding onto anyway. So, it looks like I get to start from scratch.

So, “Hello, world”.

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