Comm lot borkage and a question...
rufio:
As long as you test everything (and not just one half) you can deal with multiple problem hacks and hack conflicts. It means more restarts, but thems the breaks.
1. Split CC into two groups, A and B.
2. Take out B and test group A.
3. Regardless of the result, take out group A and test group B.
4. If one group is clean and the other is not, save the clean group in a folder on the desktop marked "clean", and repeat from 1 with the other group.
5. If both groups are borken, save one on your desktop for testing at a later time. Repeat from 1 with the other group; after it has been resolved, repeat from 1 with the group you saved.
6. If both groups are clean, it's a hack conflict. Put one group into a special subfolder of your downloads and leave it there. Repeat from 1 with the other group only, until you find the conflicting file(s) in that group. Then put only that/those file(s) into your downloads, and repeat from 1 with the second group until you find the conflicting file(s) in that one.
seelindarun:
Well yes, twice as many restarts is what makes it less efficient. :D
Because of its intrinsic efficiency, being completely ignorant of what the problem could be doesn't much matter, when you do a binary search.
The method you describe has much more to gain by putting some thought into making up the testing groups, and in fact there's no reason to limit yourself to just two groups to begin with, since you're going to have to test every group. In other words, some guessing becomes a lot more advantageous when you're looking for a lot of bad files, which is the way most people in this situation commence searching.
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