[Haskell-cafe] Performance question

[Ketil Malde]

Lennart Augustsson <lennart at augustsson.net> writes:

> C's rand() function is very bad and should never be used really.

On Linux (really GNU libc, I suppose) it is the same as random().  But
for portability, one is encouraged to spend the two extra letters.  I
don't understand the details, but I think the Mersenne twister is much
better in any case.  

-k
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