[Haskell-cafe] Performance question

[Lennart Augustsson]

The random() function is only marginally better than rand().

On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 6:50 AM, Ketil Malde <ketil at malde.org> wrote:
> 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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