On Wed, Apr 01, 2015 at 11:36:26AM -0400, Benjamin Kaduk wrote: > On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 11:33 AM, Mark R V Murray <m...@grondar.org> wrote: > > > > > > > Before someone makes a terrible mistake, I should point out that 4 is > > confirmed random, as cited here: https://xkcd.com/221/ > > > But surely to be non-random we need an equal number of 1 and 0 bits, making > 15 the clear choice. >
I don't know man. First off, '7' could not be chosen at random. I'm convinced factors like amount of CPUs (and their speed), RAM etc. played a huge factor here. Now that everything is faster these days, one could ponder returning '8'. We can add an ioctl to control this. Opinions? -- Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik gmail.com> _______________________________________________ svn-src-head@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-head To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-head-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
