> It bothers me that the GEQO results are not reliably reproducible
> across platforms; that complicates debugging. I have been thinking
> about suggesting that we ought to change GEQO to use a fixed random
> seed value by default, with the variable random seed being available
> only as a *non default* option. Comments anyone?
>
A few platforms (e.g. AIX) have their own random implementation, so even
with
a fixed seed they produce different randoms than others :-(
It probably still helps iff behavior is predictable on the local machine.
But: I think we use rand for some security issue. We would'nt want to make
that predictable.
Andreas
