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Re:RDRAND on AMD Ryzen 9 5900X is flakey by AshamedCaptain on Monday January 11, 2021 @03:00PM (#25735556)
And why do you even need globally UUIDs here? What's wrong with a plain old sequence counter or the like?
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Re:RDRAND on AMD Ryzen 9 5900X is flakey by stragies on Monday January 11, 2021 @03:26PM (#25736098)
Among others is that predictability of behavior of systems makes analysis and/or attack easier. Also "plain old sequence counters" in clusters of (heterogeneous) hardware makes distributing (floating) tasks more challenging. There are a bunch of other reasons.
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Re:RDRAND on AMD Ryzen 9 5900X is flakey by effie on Monday January 11, 2021 @05:29PM (#25738460)
How is using UUIDs making software more predictable than using sequence numbers?
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Re:RDRAND on AMD Ryzen 9 5900X is flakey by stragies on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @02:54AM (#25743655)
the opposite: UUIDs make things less predictable. And in many situations this is very good.
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