If you don't mind it involving a small background processing overhead, you could use a goroutine running a hashcash style iterative hash chain generation searching for a specified number of zero bits at one (or both) ends of the resultant hash before you run out of bits. This is extremely random when started from a proper random seed and you would have the process send a signal through a channel to trigger the ticker.
It wouldn't have to be that intensive a search, you could for example run the search itself on a regular ticker like every 100ms to drop the processing load, but within a fairly wide margin it will be quite random. On Tuesday, 25 September 2018 11:34:14 UTC+2, David Wahlstedt wrote: > > Hi, > What would be a nice way to implement a ticker that generates events > according to a Poisson process? > The built-in Ticker in ticker.go uses a runtimeTimer that has a field > called period. > I would like to implement a "random ticker" such that each tick interval > is random, using ExpFloat64() * d, with average duration d, instead of a > fixed interval. > I could have a go routine that sleeps a random amount of time in a loop, > but it would be nice to use something similar to the ticker. > > BR, > David > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
