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pick your poison: 1:N or N:1 ;P


It's both, multiple derivations can produce the same (content-addressed) store object, and the derivations may not be reproducible and produce different (content-addressed) store objects each time.

The reality of executing arbitrary programs on non-deterministic computers is, unfortunately, N:M!

(Cue deterministic WASM derivations or something.)


> (Cue deterministic WASM derivations)

"Rah Rah, this is why we need deterministic wasm derivations!" - Me

(There you go Ericson) Relevant links: https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/main/Nondetermini...




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