Re^5: Generate a unique ID

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I'm curious about the why/which in this. I just ran you test code several times and even put it to 1e9 and 1e8 which both ran out of memory before completing and I got no "Repeat" deaths. This is on a modern Linux box with Perl 5.8. What hardware/perl combination makes yours bomb out so early?

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Re^6: Generate a unique ID by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Nov 17, 2010 at 15:37 UTC
I did mention the reason. MS' CRT rand() function uses 15-bits only. This also affects Perl directly because the perl's rand is implemented in terms of the crt function. I'd normally use Math::Random::MT for anything where I need a descent random, but the standard implementation (and therefore the Perl module) is not threadsafe due to some static internal buffers.	[reply]

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