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> It is normally not a necessary feature of a compiler to be determistic. A compiler should be correct against a specification. That sounds like a nightmare. O
by pton_xd 2y ago
> It is normally not a necessary feature of a compiler to be determistic. A compiler should be correct against a specification.
That sounds like a nightmare. Optimizing code to play nice with black-box heuristic compilers like V8's TurboFan is, already in fact, a continual maintenance nightmare.
If you don't care about performance, non-deterministic compilation is probably "good enough." See TurboFan.