Re:Show HN: box2d-jquery - physics-engine for your DOM
by wingspan on Tuesday December 11, 2012 @10:37AM
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Great explanation, thank you. Always fun to know about non-determinism at the hardware level.
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Re:Show HN: box2d-jquery - physics-engine for your DOM
by w0utert on Tuesday December 11, 2012 @11:24AM
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>> Always fun to know about non-determinism at the hardware level.
Strictly speaking, the non-determinism isn't actually in the hardware, because the OS schedules thread context switches ;-)
Assuming the CPU is running a completely single-threaded program or uses a deterministic way to schedule thread context switches, the result should always be perfectly identical.