Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 12562] New: High overhead while switching orsynchronizing threads on different cores

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Mon, 2009-02-02 at 08:43 +0100, Thomas Pilarski wrote:
> Am Freitag, den 30.01.2009, 08:57 +0100 schrieb Mike Galbraith:
> > One of those "don't _ever_ do that" things?
> 
> I did not known random() uses a system call. It's rather unrealistic to
> have five million system calls in a second. By adding a small loop with
> some calculations near the random, the problem disappears too.
> It is a unlucky chosen data generator.

I suppose you'll have to go bug the glibc people about their random()
implementation.

If you really need random() to perform for your application (monte-carlo
stuff?) You might be better off writing a PRNG with TLS state or
something.

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