> On 6 Feb 2017, at 23:01, werner kassens <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> On 02/06/2017 09:00 PM, Sven Van Caekenberghe wrote:
>> Regarding the poor seed at startup:
>>> 1k outside runs of 'NeoUUIDGenerator new nextRandom16' (on a fresh image) 
>>> gives me only 116 unique values, compared to the expected 990-1000
>>> In the above it's already second run of the generator, for (random initial) 
>>> counter, there was only 69 unique values out of 1000.
>> But that is not proper use of a random generator, you create a new instance 
>> every time. You basically test seeding, which is different from random 
>> number generator proper.
>> 
> Hi, isnt it that, what the thread originally was about? as far as i 
> understand it, it started with yuriy saying:
> 
> The idea is that each time an image is started a new session is created and 
> assigned a new UUID...

Certainly for NeoUUIDGenerator, that will be the case, AFAIK.

> werner


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