I agree that it is better to get deterministic and predictable behavior. Reminds me of when for a while, I worked on HP 9000s under HP-UX and in parallel on an

I agree that it is better to get deterministic and predictable behavior. Reminds me of when for a while, I worked on HP 9000s under HP-UX and in parallel on an Intel 80486-based Linux box, and what I noticed is that the Unix workstations crashed sooner and more predictably with segmentation faults than Linux on the PC (not sure if this has changed since the early 1990s - probably had to do with the MMU); so developing on HP under Unix and then finally compiling under Linux led to better code quality.