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jacquesm on Jan 9, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Reverse engineering the VW electronic control unit

The other reason is to make the device work in a deterministic manner.

TeMPOraL on Jan 9, 2016 [–]

And in general, not recomputing things that should not be recomputed sounds like very good engineering to me. In the wider software world, we're way too eager to waste computational resources on pointless things.

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