You jest but I agree. Also I think the "stochastic" arguments is getting old. What if XML was stochastic? Does it matter if it is "stochastic" or does it matter if it is correct?
You know my compiler generates a different binary every time I compile the exact same code. My CPU definitely is not fully deterministic yet it makes a nice show of it being so. I don't care and nobody cares as long as it works. And what "works" means exactly is quite a bit more involved than parroting "determinism".
The argument is getting old in the sense that it was first used longer and longer ago.
However, it's still just as applicable as ever. Perhaps more.
> Does it matter if it is "stochastic" or does it matter if it is correct?
In this case, we can only determine whether it's correct after it's too late to do anything about it. So if it was correct, we can say it didn't matter, but only in retrospect.
I don't know what compiler you're using but our C/C++ builds are definitely deterministic given the same source files. We have CI tests to ensure this remains the case.
You know my compiler generates a different binary every time I compile the exact same code. My CPU definitely is not fully deterministic yet it makes a nice show of it being so. I don't care and nobody cares as long as it works. And what "works" means exactly is quite a bit more involved than parroting "determinism".