To echo this: I did my PhD, which involved adding a new feature to another software project, verifying that it worked, and presenting benchmarks. But for Reas

To echo this: I did my PhD, which involved adding a new feature to another software project, verifying that it worked, and presenting benchmarks. But for Reasons, the code ended up being based on a development branch between v2 and v3 of the upstream project. (I used to try to rebase every week, but I ended up spending too much of my time rebasing, and eventually gave up.) After going into industry, every so often someone would email me asking for my code. I'd mail them a link to a tarball of the Mercurial tree at the point I ran my benchmarks, offering to help get it working. I never heard from anybody a second time -- and nobody ever criticized my work for being un-reproducible. (In fact, eventually I received an ACM SigOps Hall of Fame Award for the work.) (And since compilers get more paranoid every year, and the snapshot was taken in 2006, the chance of anyone getting it working continues to approach zero.)