supporting deterministic 'ar'

[Michael Hennebry]

On Wed, 11 Feb 2009, Chris Demetriou wrote:

> Right, so, I didn't mean to make it seem like people had to repeat
> existing suggestions... but I don't particularly like any of them.

How about testable or comparable or predictable?

> Also, the concept I'm trying to get across here is, "build
> bit-identical outputs from bit-identical inputs."  That's more general
> than "no-stamp."
>
> The reason why i like "deterministic" for this is because it states
> clearly (at least to me): same input -> same output.  (One might claim
> that uid/gid and current time *are* inputs... I suspect most users
> don't view them as such.)

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