On Aug 21, 2013, at 5:01 PM, David M. Lloyd wrote: > I don't think you'd want to introduce the overhead of synchronization here.
No, I don't. My example code was just that. > It may be better in this case to use this kind of lazy init pattern: > > static final class Holder { > static final Random RNG = new Random(); > } > > public static double random() { > return Holder.RNG.nextDouble(); > } Thanks for the cleaner suggestion. Brian