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by anthmcc 3127 days ago
> Please note that for most people they use "Reproducible" to refer to what I call "Determinism"

Which I would argue makes fall more sense.

actually I think a better definition would be that determinism is bit-for-bit identical under controlled inputs. A reproducible build is the act of controlling those inputs to feed into a deterministic build.

I'm curious why you chose the definition you did, as proving a build is reproducible sounds impossible hard.

Of course I've always looked at it from the standpoint of "reproduce this binary from source, thus proving your source code (modulo compiler trust of course)".