Re: [Haskell-cafe] Performance question

The random() function is only marginally better than rand(). On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 6:50 AM, Ketil Malde wrote:

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