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>> Always fun to know about non-determinism at the hardware level.

Strictly speaking, the non-determinism isn't actually in the hardware, because the OS schedules thread context switches ;-)

Assuming the CPU is running a completely single-threaded program or uses a deterministic way to schedule thread context switches, the result should always be perfectly identical.




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