On 11/20/2014 11:53 PM, Cyrille Artho wrote:
Richard Heck wrote:
On 11/20/2014 07:07 PM, Cyrille Artho wrote:
To those who did not think they observed the crashes: Such crashes may
be rare (1 in 100,000 uses), so unless you are looking for them and
force them to occur with tool support, you are not going to notice
this in everyday use. A random crash every couple of weeks will likely
not be noticed as a specific problem.
I agree with this, of course. But then: Why does this particular file
crash *reliably*? when so many others do not?
Richard
The frequency of a crash cannot be stated exactly. In some cases
crashes may be rare but in others they may occur (say) half of the
time you use certain multi-threaded code. This depends on how many
variable accesses are involved in the code that competes for the same
memory location, among other things.
Yes, I understand that. But it's hard to see what relevant difference
there might be
between the document set that is causing this crash---which Georg says
in the bug
report he can produce "reliably"---and other large documents sets that
other people
have used frequently without producing any crash.
In any case I think it's no problem to sacrifice a bit of performance
to prevent possible crashes, even if the crashes are rare.
Of course, but it'd be good to be sure what's causing those crashes.
Richard
