Re:Computer program fixes old code faster than expert engineers
by aaronkrolik on Friday July 10, 2015 @08:28AM
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Question for clarification: the title uses the word "fix", implying that this new program repairs code that was broken. But in reality, it optimizes repetitive algorithms. Is that the correct takeaway?
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Re:Computer program fixes old code faster than expert engineers
by kenbellows on Friday July 10, 2015 @09:39AM
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I think it "fixes" code in that it makes it work on newer hardware, but the title is still misleading; it suggests that the software is performing bugfixes and correcting code that has failing unit tests, which is totally unrelated.
Re:Computer program fixes old code faster than expert engineers
by burnte on Friday July 10, 2015 @07:00PM
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Fix in the sense that it takes a thing that used to work well and no longer does (due to changes in the underlying computing platform) and programmatically changes the methods used to be more efficient on modern platforms, while producing the same output. Fix in the sense of "improve" rather than "make not broken".