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Debugging by reasoning backward from a bad state is inherently harder than reasoning forward from a known decision point.
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- Russ Cox Software engineer and a long-time technical lead of the Go…
One of the hardest things about debugging is running a program backward: there's a data structure with a bad value, or the control flow has zigged instead of zagged, and it's very difficult to understand how it could have gotten into that state.
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↗Hash-Based Bisect Debugging in Compilers and Runtimesresearch.swtch.com
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