Joe,
How does random self-seed. Does it use time?
I ended up using ticks....but I take your point.
Thanks.
On Nov 29, 2006, at 2:38 PM, joe at strout dot net wrote:
There is no point in using a random sequence to seed itself; this
gains
you absolutely nothing. Let it self-seed, or seed it from some other
source (such as, the number of milliseconds the machine has been
running or the /dev/random file or something like that).
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On Nov 29, 2006, at 22:40 UTC, Michael wrote:
How does random self-seed. Does it use time?
That's not documented... but I might conjecture that it's something
like that. Why, have you found its self-seeding to be inadequate? Or
were you assuming that it didn't do so at all?
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- Joe
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