On 27 Feb 06, at 1:15, A.J. Venter wrote: > > 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.
System.GetProcessID should be perfectly platform independent. HTH Tomas _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal