Proposal: Generalize the RandomGen and Random classes

[Jan-Willem Maessen]

On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 7:10 PM, Antoine Latter <aslatter at gmail.com> wrote:

> All of this is predicated on specializing the random-data-consumer to
> the random-data-producer being a significant performance win.

I am very skeptical that this is the case.  I'd like to see a
demonstration that specializing an RNG in this way is helpful (and
that implementing / sensibly defaulting the missing methods actively
gets in the way of this specialization).

-Jan-Willem Maessen