Re: [RFH] hackday and GSoC topic suggestions

Christian Couder [off-list ref] writes:

On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 9:50 AM, Jeff King [off-list ref] wrote:

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I think Google leaves it up to us to decide. I'd be OK with a project
made of multiple small tasks, as I think it would be an interesting
experiment.  I'd rather not do all of them like that, though. And
bonus points if they are on a theme that will let the student use the
ramp-up time from one for another.

Yeah, a student working on the "git bisect fix/unfixed" feature, could
fix git bisect testing too many merge bases, and if there is still
time work on moving more code from shell to C.

In the context of programming tasks, "if there is still time" is a prime
candidate for the successful application of branch prediction.

-- 
David Kastrup