Paul Gilmartin wrote: >>If you're one in a million, and you live in a city of three million people... >It may be far worse than that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_problem
Hm? This isn't the same thing, it's a monotonically increasing counter. It's just a question of whether things are fast enough that without deliberate (un?)synchronization, they can actually happen at the same time on multiple processors. Or were you referring to the "city of 3M"? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
