Re: what is the role of the `seed` field in the Lua global state?

[云风 <cloudwu@...>]

> 在 2020年3月12日，22:39，Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo <lhf@tecgraf.puc-rio.br> 写道：
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>> Is there any way to specify a seed when I create a new lua VM ? It's
>> very useful for reproduction of bugs .
>> If the seed is always random, the order of table iteration would be
>> different every time.
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There is another reason that I want to set the seed by myself.

Our system use thousands lua VMs in one process. I make a small patch to share the function protos (including strings) among these VMs. So I need these VMs use the same seed, so that the strings’ hash can be  used in any of these VM.