I completely agree.

> On Mar 16, 2016, at 10:33 PM, Chris Lattner via swift-dev 
> <swift-dev@swift.org> wrote:
> 
> IMO, we should remove/disable this test unless it can be “really” fixed.  It 
> is unacceptable to have a test that we know injects noise into our CI 
> systems.  Having to second guess whether failures are “real” or not 
> undermines their value, and we should continue to stomp out any 
> nondeterminism from the build and test cycle.
> 
> -Chris
> 
>> On Mar 16, 2016, at 11:34 AM, Ben Langmuir via swift-dev 
>> <swift-dev@swift.org> wrote:
>> 
>> I was tired of seeing and writing these emails:
>> 
>> commit 24f685c1d29cd926b1674e099bfcca6ed8673491
>> Author: Ben Langmuir <blangm...@apple.com>
>> Date:   Wed Mar 16 10:36:02 2016
>> 
>>     Decrease the probability that stdlib/Hashing.swift will fail
>>     
>>     Bump the number of trials from 10 to 14, which makes the test orders of
>>     magnitude less likely to fail.  For a range of size 10, doing 10 trials
>>     meant that a single call to checkRange would fail ~0.03% of the time;
>>     with 14 trials the spurious failure rate is ~0.0003%. We have 10 calls
>>     to checkRange in this test with ranges of size <= 10.
>>     
>>     While this test didn't fail that often before, we have a very large
>>     number of automated builds and it has been a constant low-level source
>>     of friction that this test fails and we have to look at and then ignore
>>     the results.
>> 
>> 
>>> On Mar 16, 2016, at 10:01 AM, Jordan Rose via swift-dev 
>>> <swift-dev@swift.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Unrelated and harmless: this test is probabilistic.
>>> 
>>>> On Mar 16, 2016, at 10:00 , no-re...@swift.org wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> [FAILURE] oss-swift-incremental-RA-osx [#2761]
>>>> 
>>>> Build URL: https://ci.swift.org/job/oss-swift-incremental-RA-osx/2761/
>>>> Project:   oss-swift-incremental-RA-osx
>>>> Date of build:     Wed, 16 Mar 2016 09:31:51 -0700
>>>> Build duration:    29 min
>>>> Identified problems:
>>>> 
>>>> Regression test failed: This build failed because a regression test in the 
>>>> test suite FAILed. Below is a list of all errors:
>>>> Indication 1
>>>> Tests: 
>>>> 
>>>> Name: Swift
>>>> Failed: 1 test(s), Passed: 7772 test(s), Total: 7773 test(s)
>>>> Failed: Swift.stdlib.Hashing.swift
>>>> Name: Swift-Unit
>>>> Failed: 0 test(s), Passed: 278 test(s), Total: 278 test(s)
>>>> 
>>>> Changes
>>>> 
>>>> Commit c43943d7a884f7b43a6ac06877c29656d5214653 by jordan_rose:
>>>> [build-script] Remove -X option for "edit-only" Xcode projects.
>>>> 
>>>> edit: utils/build-script-impl
>>>> edit: README.md
>>>> edit: CMakeLists.txt
>>>> edit: cmake/modules/SwiftAddCustomCommandTarget.cmake
>>>> edit: utils/build-script
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