A Collection of Debugging Stories this being just one example, a performance anomaly. “So I got all scientific … I could precisely measure the performance differences. This didn’t take long … the new code was about 10% faster than the old. What was more interesting was that the code inside of the test harness was running about 10x faster (900%!!!) than the same code inside of the game. That was an exciting discovery.”
via the curated list of debugging stories at
via the discussion at
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10104949