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by hathawsh 2212 days ago
I would think that profile-guided optimization (PGO) also makes compilation nondeterministic (unless the profile is stored for reuse.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Profile-guided_optimization

I've been enabling PGO when building Python lately and I imagine the resulting binaries are a little different every time due to random events during profiling.