Gearing up (again) for the next release: 2014.2.0.0

[Johan Tibell]

On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 6:42 PM, Nick Smallbone <nicsma at chalmers.se> wrote:

> I believe that StdGen and tf-random are about the same speed, with the
> winner depending on which benchmark you use. So I wouldn't expect any
> big change in performance. But tf-random does link against some C code
> to do the actual hashing, which I imagine is something we don't want
> StdGen to do. But maybe with something like SipHash we could make a
> pure Haskell version!
>

Linking against C libraries is fine. Lots of core libraries do.
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