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Mar 2, 2012 at 4:44pm
RNG in C-external instances
hallo, i’m trying to generate a different random number in different instances of an external. can you give me some advise
i’m using the normal rand(). Is the sdk offering something else/better?
the number is generated at object initialization. could it happen, if i use time as seed, that two instances generate the same number because initialization of both objects happens faster than 1ms?? if so, what can give me faster seeds?
Thanbks O.
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Mar 2, 2012 at 5:18pm
Hello,
AFAIK class is loaded once (“main” method of your external) ; so isn’t it possible to seed the RNG there ?
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Mar 2, 2012 at 5:48pm
hey, not sure if i get what you mean. “class is loaded once”?
i’m using the “new” function to generate the number. it doesn’t matter where i seed it. Interessting for me is what happens if i load a patch with two instances of the ext, how can i make sure both instances are generating a different random number when they are created.
with different seeds, right? how do i get different seeds so fast?
i don’t want to do intance to instance messages for this simple task.
tell me if it’s still hard to understand my question.
O.
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Mar 2, 2012 at 6:06pm
Hello,
for example in case of a [flop] external you can seed the RNG there …
int main (void)
{
t_class *c = NULL;
c = class_new ("flop", (method)flop_new, (method)flop_free, (long)(sizeof(t_flop)), 0L, A_GIMME, 0);
class_addmethod (c, (method)flop_assist, "assist", A_CANT, 0);
class_addmethod (c, (method)flop_bang, "bang", 0);
srand ((unsigned int)time(NULL));
class_register (CLASS_BOX, c);
flop_class = c;
return 0;
}
… instead of in the flop_new() function as the main() method is called only one time (for the FIRST created [flop] object). You can still use rand() function in flop_new() to get your random number. Problem occurs if you seed the RNG in flop_new() with time if instantiation occurs in the same millisecond ; but as you instantiate it only the first time it will be OK.
Is it clear ? I don’t think so ;-)
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Mar 2, 2012 at 6:19pm
do you mean main() is only called once even if a second and third instance is created? so that rand_s in instance 2 will create random number 2 of the seed? i’ll try that out.
thanks for your help so far..
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Mar 2, 2012 at 6:52pm
Hello,
that’s exactly what i mean ;-)
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Mar 2, 2012 at 7:39pm
cool, it works. and learned something..
thanks, bye
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