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From: "Jon A. Lambert" <jlsysinc@ix.netcom.com>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Wed, 4 Jun 1997 22:10:31 -0400
Organization: Kanga.Nu
> From: clawrenc@cup.hp.com
>
> Not only that, but you will get into side effect problems where
> generating the sequence to derive from A from B results in a certain
> value at B, but conversely generating the sequence from C to get B
> gets a different value. This can get *really* hairy to track down and
> provably ensure will not happen.
>
Chris or anyone:
Does multi-threading have any affects on seeds used in the random
generator. Does anyone know if this is truly thread safe?
JL
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