I just managed to get my artificial chemistry simulation producing the 
same results when I run it twice with the same parameters. Perhaps some  
members of the group will be interested in the two factors that led to 
differing results:

1)   My graphics library (GTKMM2) calling rand() at random times between 
the calls made by my code
2)   My code storing pointers in an std::set, and then iterating over the 
set. The ordering is dependent on the memory locations of the dynamically 
allocated objects to which the pointers point.

Chris Gordon-Smith
www.simsoup.info

"Chris Gordon-Smith" <use.address@my.homepage> wrote in message 
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>I just managed to get my artificial chemistry simulation producing the
> same results when I run it twice with the same parameters. Perhaps some
> members of the group will be interested in the two factors that led to
> differing results:
>
> 1)   My graphics library (GTKMM2) calling rand() at random times between
> the calls made by my code
> 2)   My code storing pointers in an std::set, and then iterating over the
> set. The ordering is dependent on the memory locations of the dynamically
> allocated objects to which the pointers point.
>
Congrats on reaching that milestone in your project, it looks like an 
interesting one.
Thanks for the info. :) 


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On Sat, 2011-09-10, Chris Gordon-Smith wrote:
> I just managed to get my artificial chemistry simulation producing the 
> same results when I run it twice with the same parameters. Perhaps some  
> members of the group will be interested in the two factors that led to 
> differing results:
>
> 1)   My graphics library (GTKMM2) calling rand() at random times between 
> the calls made by my code

Aargh!  But in a sense that's just another example of the brokenness
of rand(). You usually want a PRNG where you keep the state manually.
I assume the TR1 random number stuff can do that.

/Jorgen

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Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> writes:
>> 1)   My graphics library (GTKMM2) calling rand() at random times between 
>> the calls made by my code
>
> Aargh!  But in a sense that's just another example of the brokenness
> of rand(). You usually want a PRNG where you keep the state manually.
> I assume the TR1 random number stuff can do that.

The random state in both TR1 and C++11 is a part of the generator
object, so ... yeah.  [Of course it would be super duper surprising if
this wasn't true!]

-Miles

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