Hi all,

I'm working with AI::NeuralNet::Mesh and I've seen a few areas that it can be improved 
slightly. 
Mainly, I can make it run clean under warnings and, according to some initial 
benchmarks, I can
give it a nice performance boost with a few tweaks.  However, I backed out my changes 
to be able
to build a more comprehensive test suite to ensure that I don't break anything.  This 
raises a
question for me.

After training the neural network, assuming that I am using the same training data 
every time (in
the same order), are the results deterministic across operating systems, CPUs, Perl 
versions, etc?
 From reading through the code, I don't see anything that would cause problems here, 
but I'm not
sure.

If the results *are* deterministic then I can go ahead and build the test suite and 
send this back
to the author.  Otherwise, I can only build the tests for me, but I'd prefer to be 
able let others
take advantage of my work.

Cheers,
Ovid

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