Junio C Hamano wrote: > "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> My main objection to the "skip in goodness space" is exactly the same as >> Junio's... it doesn't really buy you what it claims to sell. > > It is no worse than the original "pick the next best in goodness space"; > neither try to avoid the ones close to untestable ones. > Well, it's certainly better than "next best in goodness space", which is provably pessimal in many common cases. > So as long as it does not claim "we intelligently try to skip away from > untestable ones", I am actually Ok with Christian's patch. It might do > worse than the random walk in pathological cases, but I suspect not by a > big margin. -hpa -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html