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williamdclt
on July 11, 2025
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Also uninformed but I can't see how that would be true, floating point rounding errors are entirely deterministic
saagarjha
on July 11, 2025
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Not if your scheduler causes accumulation in a different order.
williamdclt
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Are you talking about a DAG of FP calculations, where parallel steps might finish in different order across different executions? That's getting out of my area of knowledge, but I'd believe it's possible
saagarjha
on July 13, 2025
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Well a very simple example would be if you run a parallel reduce using atomics the result will depend on which workers acquire the accumulator first.
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