How often should I call srand() in a C++ application?

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If you have only a single thread, seed once. If you reseed often, you might actually break some of the statistical properties of the random numbers. If you have multiple threads, don’t use rand at all, but rather something threadsafe like drand48_r, which lets you maintain a per-thread state (so you can seed once per thread).

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