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in reply to Jonathan Lamothe

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There's so such thing as a Heisenbug on deterministic computers.
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in reply to Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.

@Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. Intellectually, I understand this.

I think that computers just trick us into believing them to be deterministic.

in reply to Jonathan Lamothe

They aren't quite as deterministic as we might like them to be these days. I think some CPUs have a quantum randomness source, and task-scheduling across multiple computation units often _feels_ non-deterministic to me.

Plus, I do believe the term "Heisenbug" can be applied to bugs that go away when you turn on debugging/profiling/tracing or any other type of monitoring system that might be useful to diagnosis, even if everything is perfectly deterministic.

DFTBA

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