Commit 5f299177 authored by Clemens Lang's avatar Clemens Lang Committed by Eduard Sanou
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docs/buy_in: Document easier build sys refactoring 

If your output did not change after a build system change, you can be
reasonably confident that your software will still work. That's better
than re-running all tests, so clearly an advantage of reproducible
builds.
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still preserving confidence about unchanged code. This can speed up

quality assurance and development speed.



Changes to the build system can be tested easily with reproducible

builds: If the output artifacts are identical, the changes will not

affect runtime behavior.



“But how can I trust my compiler?”

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