On 1/18/16 6:55 PM, deadalnix wrote:
On Monday, 18 January 2016 at 23:49:36 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
unpredictableSeed uses the system clock as a source of randomness, so
we're good there. -- Andrei
I got problem with that even when crytographically secure randomness
wasn't needed more than once. A specific case included adding jitter on
some timeout to avoid all hosts to expire at the same time, and used
mersenne twister with a pseudo random seed. There still were way too
many hosts ending up with the same timeout.
System time is not enough.
How would this translate to a matter of selecting the pivot during sort?
-- Andrei
