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The difference is that compilers are supposed to be deterministic and low level inclined people often investigate compiler bugs (specially performance bugs) and can pinpoint to some deterministic code that triggered it. Fix the underlying code and it stops misbehaving with high assurance

A non deterministic compiler is probably defective and in any case much less useful

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