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How a 20 year old bug in GTA San Andreas surfaced in Windows 11 24H2

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1371 points yett | 1 comments | 23 Apr 25 14:00 UTC | HN request time: 0.215s | source
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amenghra ◴[23 Apr 25 18:08 UTC] No.43774928[source]▶
IMHO, if something isn’t part of the contract, it should be randomized. Eg if iteration order of maps isn’t guaranteed in your language, then your language should go out of its way to randomize it. Otherwise, you end up with brittle code: code that works fine until it doesn’t.
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frollogaston ◴[23 Apr 25 20:27 UTC] No.43776311[source]▶
Randomization at this level would be too expensive. There are tools that do this for debug purposes, and your stuff runs a lot slower in that mode.
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1. throwaway2037 ◴[24 Apr 25 02:55 UTC] No.43778874[source]▶
I had to Google to find the tid bit that I read about Perl years ago. I think this will affect iteration order of dicts.

    > Nov 22, 2012 — Perl 5.18 will introduce per process hash randomization and almost certainly will feature a new hash function.