Re: [Haskell-cafe] Performance question

Lennart Augustsson 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 -- If I haven't seen further, it is by standing in the footprints of giants