[gavinray]

  > The LAST thing you want is a non-deterministic process monkey patching your code.

I'm not poking fun of you, but the irony here is that code-as-written is mostly a "suggestion" to modern compilers and JIT interpreters and the actual instructions emitted often look nothing like your ver-batim code.

[sublinear]

Compilers are deterministic. You can control all the input to the compiler and the environment it runs in to get reproducible builds. This isn't an accident. That's best practice.

[ratelimitsteve]

okay but at least those are provably equivalent, unless my understanding is off. isn't that the whole impetus behind the idea of functional programming?