Re:Meta LLM Compiler: neural optimizer and disassembler
by skybrian on Saturday June 29, 2024 @11:09AM
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I’m amused by the possibility of a compiler having a flag to set a random seed. (with a fixed default, of course).
If you hit a compiler bug, you could try a different seed to see what happens.
Or how about a code formatter with a random seed?
Tool developers could run unit tests with a different seed until they find a bug - or hide the problem by finding a lucky seed for which you have no provable bugs :)
If you hit a compiler bug, you could try a different seed to see what happens.
Or how about a code formatter with a random seed?
Tool developers could run unit tests with a different seed until they find a bug - or hide the problem by finding a lucky seed for which you have no provable bugs :)