On 11.08.2011 21:33, Vegard Nossum wrote:
> I've written a small program that gathers randomness from the
> uncertainty of scheduling between threads/cores in a multithreaded
> program/system.
Hmm my gut feeling is that this is not random enough that it matters.
The OS schedulers are actually quite predictable, more cores is
not necessarily better (it is more probable to immediately find
an idle one) and the quality varies with load type, thread
priorities etc.
With some load scenarios I'd be not surprised to see the results
only come from a set of a few thousands values the majority
of the time.
Regards
--
Stano
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