Why did my benchmark stop at N=22? A debugging story in nine bugs
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In the quest for a Bug Smash target, the author discovered that their benchmark file inexplicably capped at N=22, despite the system being designed for higher values. After some digging, it turned out that the original developer had arbitrarily set this limit, without any apparent reason. This minor but curious oversight highlights the importance of thorough code reviews and the potential for historical debugging to uncover long-standing, unexplained decisions in software projects.
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