default random object?
Walter Bright
newshound1 at digitalmars.com
Sat Feb 14 03:02:14 PST 2009
Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> 2. The global random generator will be allocated per thread. Are you
> cool with this too?
That could have speed problems with a tight loop accessing thread local
storage. If it's a shared global with no locking, the thread randomness
will increase its randomness <g>.
> 3. How should the global rng be initialized? To always generate the same
> sequence, or not?
Always different, because that's what I want if I just want a freakin'
random number!
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