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Yeah I get that. The problem is that with AI decomps you really need a clear and verifiable target and exactness solves that problem. If you step away from that you basically leave any agent free space to cheat.


Yeah, that makes sense. Even taking AI out of the equation, that's how you know a decomp is actually right--it matches.


Sadly, even that isn't really a guarantee. I've seen some of the crazy nonsense that the permuter does to get a 100% match. `if ((!x) && (!x) && (!x)) {}` apparently gets different register allocation than `if (!x) {}`, for example. And sometimes important code takes zero instructions (like forwarding an argument from function X to function Y).




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