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by blazing234 608 days ago
How do you know the second result is correct? Or the third? Or the fourth?
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I approach it the same way as the things I build myself - testing and measuring.

Although if I’m truly honest with myself, even after many years of developing, the true cycle of me writing code is: over confidence, then shock it didn’t work 100% the first time, wondering if there is a bug in the compiler, and then reality setting in that of course the compiler is fine and I just made my 15th off-by-one error of the day :)