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killeronthecorner@lemmy.world 11 months agorand will be called every time true is used, which could be hundreds of times for all we know
Comment on Me after I got fired
killeronthecorner@lemmy.world 11 months agorand will be called every time true is used, which could be hundreds of times for all we know
frezik@midwest.social 11 months ago
If it’s a 16-bit integer platform, it might hit every once in a while.
If it’s a 32-bit integer platform, it’ll hit very rarely.
If it’s a 64-bit integer platform, someone would have to do the math with some reasonable assumptions, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it would never hit before the universe becomes nothing but black holes.
Morphit@feddit.uk 11 months ago
The point being made is that it also depends how often the ‘true’ value gets used in the code. Tests might only evaluate it a few times per run, or they could cause billions of evaluations per run. You can’t know the probability of a test failure without knowing the occurrence rate of that expression.
killeronthecorner@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yes you’re correct, this was the point I was making.
themusicman@lemmy.world 11 months ago
But it would hit a different place every time… Most developers wouldn’t even consider checking for this, and the chance of getting a repro in a debugger is slim to none