Re: Two fixes I would like!
[email protected] (Cees de Groot)
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<[email protected]> said: >I haven't myself looked them over yet, but will. John McIntosh was a bit >critical to the UUID-fix - but on the other hand hasn't AFAIK produced >an alternative solution - I think he wanted to fix Random instead. > The fix itself is ok, with the caveat that I might have forgotten to do proper class-side initialization. Fixing Random is more involved. Among others, the fix uses the sound input as a random source, which takes quite a bit of time - acceptable for once every 100,000 UUID's, not acceptable for general random number generation. -- Cees de Groot http://www.cdegroot.com <[email protected]> GnuPG 1024D/E0989E8B 0016 F679 F38D 5946 4ECD 1986 F303 937F E098 9E8B Cogito ergo evigilo