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by wiz21c 3216 days ago
because during the compilation, some package use date-dependent stuff, for example (I dunno the exact details though)
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Also some build systems create artifacts as a result of timing-dependent algorithms. Simply put, if two things A and B run simultaneously, and A completes before B, then in some compilers/build systems/etc the result can be different from B completing before A. GHC, as a well-known example, suffers from this problem.