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fc417fc802today at 12:45 PM1 replyview on HN

Right but regardless, it's a buggy optimization. The calculations are all fully deterministic when done "properly" and fully consistently but we almost never bother with that because it slows things down and the errors don't matter in practice 99% of the time.


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qarltoday at 3:00 PM

AGREED. Although whoever designed that architecture might take issue with your description as "buggy".