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  Re: Requesting ideas/opinions for RNG seeding syntax  
From: clipka
Date: 21 May 2009 13:45:00
Message: <web.4a15920938187d7ee1d5d3040@news.povray.org>
Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:
>   As I mentioned in another post, it makes little sense to me to stop the
> user from accessing the features of the RNG simply because someone can't
> think of good uses for them. And I really think that going the old route
> of "2^32 random number streams ought to be enough for anybody" is not smart
> in the long run.

Wasn't there *some* talk about a major rework of the SDL anyway?

So I'd say, never mind about "huge seeds" for now, and leave that up for a
next-generation SDL to take care of.


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