[erlang-questions] unique_integer

[Guilherme Andrade]

Hi,

On 02/04/16 21:32, mickael trouve wrote:
>
> Why does the step of the unique integer is 2 ? What about the odd values ?

By doing a quick test using 18.2.1, a naïve analysis points to 1) the
step being proportional to twice the number of online schedulers and 2)
things getting fuzzier when trying to generate integers concurrently.

I would speculate that maybe separate counters are kept for different
schedulers in order to not have that as a bottleneck, and hence a step
that's proportional to the number of counters (as well as adequate
initial values) in order to avoid repetition.

Or maybe it's something else entirely.

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Guilherme

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