From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2008-06-26T05:57:55+09:00
Subject: Re: Is this deterministic or not?

On 25.06.2008 19:34, Dave Bass wrote:
> Robert Klemme wrote:
>> Plus, opposed to other libs and languages, there is a random element in 
>> seeding
> 
> Well, a combination of the time, the process id, and a sequence number 
> isn't actually random! ;-)
> 
> However, it's certainly better than using the time on its own, as has 
> commonly been done in the past.

Which in turn is even better than using a constant seed - which also has 
been done in the past.  This was the case I was thinking of.

Cheers

	robert