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In the beginning, there was the binary, and it was difficult to change.

Then the golden age of ascii encoded source, where all was easy to change.

Now we've forgotten that lesson and changed to ascii encoded binary.

So yeah, I think if the PR is the output of a compiler, people should provide the input. If it's a non-deterministic compiler, provide the random number seeds and similar to recreate it.



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