If this was a regression, could a binary search be done on check-ins? Or is the code too distributed?
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> It didn’t correspond to a Google Docs release. The stack trace added very little information. There wasn’t an associated spike in user complaints, so we weren’t even sure it was really happening — but if it was happening it would be really bad. It was Chrome-only starting at a specific release.
That sounds like a Chrome bug. Or, at least, a bug triggered by a change in Chrome. Bisecting your code when their change reveals a crash is folly, regardless of whose bug it is.
In a large complicated application where a change to the environment revealed a crash, finding out what changed in the environment and thinking about how that affects the application makes a lot more sense than going back through application changes to see if you can find it that way.
Once you figure out what the problem is, sure you can probably fix it in the application or the environment, and fixing the application is often easier if the environment is Chrome. But chrome changed and my app is broken means look at the changes in Chrome and work from there.