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Thursday, 19th of September 2019, 1:10:48 UTC
12:57:05
Lycurgus
is it a misperception that sbcl doesn't seem to converge to a more bug free state ?
12:59:04
Lycurgus
(say relative to acl or ccl)
13:03:23
scymtym
i don't know about ccl, let alone acl, but SBCL certainly is not bug free and has not been bug free at any point
13:04:41
Lycurgus
well I've built a number of older code sets lately, so gotten deeper into x-implementation experience
13:06:54
pkhuong
how do you know if the bugs are gone or just not found?
13:07:00
Lycurgus
also my question was about process, convergence, I don't expect any conventionally produced software to be entirely bug free
13:07:27
pkhuong
pfdietz's automated tester does a pretty good job at finding increasingly subtle issues
13:07:30
Lycurgus
well actually what stimulated the question was looking at the change log current
13:08:20
Lycurgus
i a long experience of software development
13:08:44
Lycurgus
i've found the main thing that leads to relatively bug free stable software
13:08:45
pkhuong
you also get a lot of port-specific churn with very young ports like power. does it mean that the x86 ports are currently buggier?
13:09:02
Lycurgus
is change suppression and a focus on that minimal problem goal
13:09:55
Lycurgus
power is surviving thing from power pc arch?
13:10:10
jackdaniel
fixes only prove that software is better tested, not that it has more issues. test suites running across multiple implementations could give some comparison (given that tests discover interested edge cases)
Thursday, 19th of September 2019, 13:10:48 UTC