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Re:Try Gleam by wakamoleguy on Monday November 09, 2026 @07:56AM (#50424954)
Which tangentially brings up another analogy: many high level languages don’t compile directly to assembly but to an intermediate language first (LLVM). We don’t read the LLVM code ourselves.
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Re:Try Gleam by rlander on Monday November 09, 2026 @09:08AM (#50425838)
But LLVM compilation is deterministic. LLM code gen isn’t.
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Re:Try Gleam by pjmlp on Monday November 09, 2026 @09:13AM (#50425919)
Only when not used alongside PGO data or as a JIT, as its inputs are not deterministic in first place.
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