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Re:Show HN: Accelerating SHA256 by 100x in Golang on ARM by halomru on Wednesday July 27, 2016 @09:10PM (#12177712)
>there are no algorithm changes (otherwise the results would be different

Insertionsort, Mergesort and Timsort are three wildly different algorithms with different speeds, but on every possible input they produce the exact same result

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Re:Show HN: Accelerating SHA256 by 100x in Golang on ARM by sjolsen on Wednesday July 27, 2016 @10:34PM (#12177978)
Strictly speaking, it's possible for different sorting algorithms to produce different results if you sort using a weak order rather than a total order.
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Re:Show HN: Accelerating SHA256 by 100x in Golang on ARM by cmrx64 on Thursday July 28, 2016 @04:29AM (#12179048)
Or an unstable sort (which none of grandparent's examples are, but aren't uncommon in naive implementations)
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