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Re:Bazel – Correct, reproducible, fast builds for everyone by fizbin on Tuesday March 24, 2015 @08:56PM (#9260632)
Specifically, people should note that many code generators are not carefully designed for strict reproducibility, and will stick time stamps in generated output.

Even if you undo that, code generation tools are liable to at some point traverse a dictionary without caring about whether the result is deterministic. I spent some time at Google fighting with antlr to try to get it to have deterministic output and I still think that I left some corner case uncovered.

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