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| Subject: | Re: random seed generator? |
| From: | "Craig A. Finseth" <fin at finseth dot com> |
| Date: | Wed, 29 Nov 2006 19:36:18 -0600 (CST) |
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I imagine that the case is similar to PHP, where they moved to a self
seeding model later, but kept the manual seed function to avoid breaking
older applications and to allow you room to experiment.
...
Self-seeding is good because it's hard to come up with a quick and
easy seed (time, process ID, and that ilk aren't the best).
Having an explicit seed is important when debugging so that you can
get reproducability!
Craig
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