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Got my hopes up for deterministic builds, but then I read on slide 5: Out of scope: compiler doesn't produce byte for byte comparable binaries

• davecheney 12y ago
  There are others working on that problem. I probably shouldn't have mentioned it; if I hadn't, you wouldn't have thought about it, and then nobody would have had their hopes dashed.
  • Aissen 12y ago
    English isn't my first language, so when I read "reproducible" I thought "deterministic"; I also didn't think you'd be working on the "vendoring" problem since I thought it was a solved issue (which it isn't for all the reasons in the post). Anyways, thanks for your work.
    • davecheney 12y ago
      I think the compilers that produce elf output are almost deterministic, at least when producing a fully static binary (no CGO). I don't think that holds for mach-o or PE binaries, but I'm really speaking off the cuff here, as I said, others care about this and are working on it separately.
    • ComputerGuru 12y ago
      However, English is my first language, and I thought exactly the same.
  • silon3 12y ago
    Does JIT (or late/deploy time optimize/link) help here? Would it be easier to make deterministic builds when optimizer is not involved?
    • davecheney 12y ago
      Nope, this is about the source that goes into the compiler.