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Re: How to implement the V comparsion used by sort in python?
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Florian Weimer |
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Re: How to implement the V comparsion used by sort in python? |
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Mon, 28 Oct 2019 10:00:46 +0100 |
* Assaf Gordon:
> Hello,
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>> On Oct 26, 2019, at 5:05 PM, Peng Yu <address@hidden> wrote:
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>> Are you sure they are 100% compatible with V? I don’t want to use
>> them just later find they are not 100% compatible.
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> There are no such guarantees, especially not with free software.
I don't know why you say that.
With free software, you can look at the actual source code and prove
that the implementations are equivalent. Or compile them with
instrumentation and run them through a fuzzer to find differences
experimentally.
But someone certainly has to do this work.