Re: [PHP] database abstraction layer

Rene Veerman wrote:
> eh thats "randomize the timing of the retry attempt"..
> 
> 
> On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 12:17 AM, Rene Veerman <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> and after the sleep(rand(1,3)) it might need a short loop like this;
>> $rnd = rand(1,99999); $a=0;
>> for ($i=0; $i<$rnd; $i++) { $a++ }
>>
>> to further randomize the retry attempt..

While this decreases the probability of a collision you're just setting 
up another race. They teach about this stuff in computer science... 
right around first year... or at least they once upon a time did.

Cheers,
Rob.
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