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by ginko 812 days ago
Even regular compilers need quite a bit of nudging to give deterministic results.
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Correct me if I'm wrong here, but I am under the impression they're only non-deterministic in the practical sense (i.e, it produces this output on my machine, I can't know what minute differences there are on your machine), but that's not non-deterministic in the truest sense. If you have completely identical inputs you will get the exact same output, ergo, deterministic.
You are correct. Compilers are deterministic, but reproducible builds can be a challenge.