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nnpack is not reproducible

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Message #30 received at 50672-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Ludovic Courtès <ludovic.courtes <at> inria.fr>
To: Kyle Meyer <kyle <at> kyleam.com>
Cc: 50672-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org, zimoun <zimon.toutoune <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Re: bug#50672: nnpack is not reproducible
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2021 14:54:28 +0200

Hi!

Kyle Meyer <kyle <at> kyleam.com> skribis:

> Ludovic Courtès writes:
>
>> For the record, I tried the attached patch in an attempt to sort things
>> as discussed in the issue above, but it doesn’t have the intended
>> effect.  There must be other unsorted dictionaries elsewhere.
>
> Hmm, I don't think dictionaries are a likely culprit here because
> Python's dict implementation preserves the insertion order as of Python
> v3.6 (and that behavior is declared as part of the language spec with
> v3.7).

Ah, silly me.

> In cases where the order of the keys isn't specified (i.e. Python 3.5
> and below), I think the end result after your change is the same: it
> creates a new dictionary for sorted _input_, but things won't
> necessarily come out in the same order.

Noted, thanks for explaining.

> I'm not familiar with PeachPy, but taking a peek at name.py, the sets
> used for the values of the prenames dictionary could be the problem.
> And if that's the case, one solution would be switching those values
> from sets to dictionaries.
>
> With the change below (on top of PeachPy's 257881e), nnpack builds
> reliably for me across a couple of attempts:
>
>   $ guix-dev build --with-git-url=python-peachpy=$local --no-grafts --check nnpack
>   successfully built /gnu/store/7z4nl55gssrf9na7wsvmw1dsqgawnj2p-nnpack-0.0-1.c07e3a0.drv
>   successfully built /gnu/store/7z4nl55gssrf9na7wsvmw1dsqgawnj2p-nnpack-0.0-1.c07e3a0.drv
>   /gnu/store/4ihjil42fbk53q73gpvdakynbv9q5q09-nnpack-0.0-1.c07e3a0

Your patch does the trick, indeed.  I went ahead and pushed it as
b87fe805aa66851f17f56078cb0e94f7cc4525df.

Thank you!

Ludo’.

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