On Monday 27 February 2006 08:41, Vincent Snijders wrote: > BTW, I never would have guessed that the random number generator > would have used threadvars. I would have thought, that on app start > you would set one randseed and then call random from all threads.
Considering that the state array for the Mersenne Twister is an unprotected global variable, calling random from different threads looks like a bad idea to me. I mean, it surely gives you sort of random values, but ... Vinzent. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
