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loeg on June 7, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: Make your program slower with threads (2014)

If you're running into contention with multiple threads on a shared PRNG, you're probably at sufficient scale.

jayd16 on June 7, 2024 [–]

Sure. Just saying that, for example, if you spawn threads and use the thread ID as the seed but pull a single value per thread, that's not sufficient.

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