> Some other workaround that comes to my mind is to do something like > Randomize; > RandSeed := RandSeed * getpid; This worked, cut the initial generation time from about 30 seconds down to under 1, of course right now it's NOT platform independent at all so I will need to enhance it but I like the direction of your thinking, combining randseed with some virtually guaranteed unique value solves the problem.
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