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What happens to formal verification when the hardware is deterministic.
What happens to formal verification when the hardware is deterministic.
An SMT solver with one theory is a SAT solver with opinions. Add a second theory and you need a protocol for disagreement.
A SAT solver answers one question: is this set of clauses satisfiable? Four crates — the solver itself, a bounded model checker, an SMT solver, and a property-directed reachability engine — are built on that question, each posing it differently.
The best research instrumentation gets built to test hypotheses that turn out wrong.
A one-line soundness hole that zero tests caught and zero users triggered.
A type system that compiles to nothing is not overhead you tolerate — it is proof the compiler can verify and then discard.