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Comment by williamdclt

2 days ago

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

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saagarjha  4 hours ago

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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