Re: [boost] [uuid] uuid::create() function

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Andy wrote:

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4. Use the current seed as the random numbers directly. Will this solution provide 'good' uuids? That is, is this source of random numbers good enough?

Thanks! This is the assurance I needed.

Andy.

Would this solution be much slower than using a static mt19937 engine? Sorry to keep harping on speed, but I see a significant use case for the UUID library in distributed systems generating lots of unique identifiers independently. If it is significantly slower without generating "better" random numbers than mt19937, then I would suggest a big note in the documentation recommending the uuid::create(engine) function for single-threaded applications. Dave Jenkins