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tjryesterday at 6:19 PM0 repliesview on HN

I’ve done builds for aerospace products where the only binary difference between two builds of the same source code is the embedded timestamp. And per FAA review guidelines, this deterministic attribute is required, or else something is wrong in the source code or build process.

I certainly don’t use all compilers everywhere, but I don’t think determinism in compilation is especially rare.