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Tinkering is Dead --- Long Live Tinkering

Code bases that evolve over the years often suffer from a tinkering
effect: The increasing complexity of code leads to modifications that
are made without complete awareness of the context of the modified
bits. Switching between versions is tedious and typically requires
going the full cycle from checking out an older version of the system,
compiling it and then deploying the binary.

In this talk we suggest a more dynamic approach towards tinkering: we
allow the programmer to keep several versions of parts of his code and
provide him with a tool to dynamically choose which one he wants to
explore. We show how this can be beneficial when targeting a range of
different hardware platforms.

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