[MEncoder-users] change bpp

[Phil Ehrens]

The Wanderer wrote:
> Rich Felker wrote:
> 
> >On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 09:33:44PM -0800, Phil Ehrens wrote:
> >
> >>Rich Felker wrote:
> 
> >>>Huh? Wtf are you talking about? I get the feeling you don't know
> >>>what binary search means.. :)
> >>
> >>This is what it means to me:
> >>
> >>http://www.nist.gov/dads/HTML/binarySearch.html
> >>
> >>It means something else to you?
> >
> >No, I guess I'm just totally confused about what you meant by your
> >email then..
> 
> My guess is that he meant that performing a binary search on a CVS tree
> to track down the cause of a breakage is inefficient, because of the
> time needed to compile and test each new candidate manually (and I can
> testify to the same, having done a few on the Wine tree) and/or the
> bandwidth necessary to jump back and forth in the CVS timeline; I
> understood him as saying that since in this case the nature of the
> problem was known, it would have been better to look in the CVS-log
> mailing list for commits which could have caused that problem and then
> just test those.

bingo.