Hash-Based Bisect Debugging in Compilers and Runtimes Posted on Thursday, July 18, 2024. PDF Setting the Stage Does this sound familar? You make a change to a library to optimize its performance or clean up technical debt or fix a bug, only to get a bug report: some very large, incomprehensibly opaque test is now failing. Or you add a new compiler optimization with a similar result. Now you have a major debugging job in an unfamiliar code base. What if I told you that a magic wand exists that ca...