Developing Programmers .com

Local Search:



This site is optimized for standards so you can use any standards compliant browser:

Valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional
Valid CSS!
(RSS) RSS Feed

Web Search:
Google

Sunday, 4 June, 2006
Google Points Out Lurking Bug

Joshua Bloch has posted on the Official Research Blog about how most binary search and merge sort code is broken and has been for years. The bug is to do with large arrays, and highlights how often programmers accept code that will do “for the examples we have right now” rather than considering whether it’ll [...]

Posted by sarah at 12:39 pm in: Plugs , Quality