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9 years ago

Windows vs Linux tool set

I haven't found a discussion of this anywhere. Please point me to the thread if one exists. I want to know whether the Windows based tools and the Linux based tools will produce equivalent (not...
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9 years ago

They do not produce identical results. The difference comes from a minor difference in floating point results that affects the fitter. Across a bunch of seeds, the averages will be identical, and for any given seed it will be random which one is better or another, but if you get a result on Linux and for some reason need to get identical results on Windows, you won't.