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Re:Towards Idempotent Rebuilds? by kardos on Wednesday July 10, 2024 @02:22PM (#40929806)
Sounds like a mechanism to test for bad hardware (akin to memtest86) and find compiler bugs =)
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Re:Towards Idempotent Rebuilds? by bobmcnamara on Wednesday July 10, 2024 @03:08PM (#40930295)
Bingo - even if we do everything right the percentage of matching builds isn't expected to be 100%. If it is, there just aren't enough samples.

My first Pentium could usually but not always math correctly until Intel replaced it during a recall.

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Re:Towards Idempotent Rebuilds? by yjftsjthsd-h on Wednesday July 10, 2024 @09:17PM (#40932978)
In a slightly different form, this has already happened: https://julialang.org/blog/2020/09/rr-memory-magic/
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