4 Nov
2010
4 Nov
'10
2:47 p.m.
On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 11:39 AM, Thomas DuBuisson
Before we bother to do that I think it would be worth deciding what level of performance we are trying to achieve. On my laptop (Core2 2.5Ghz) I generate 4MB of random values in less than 900ms (HashDRBG). What is StdGen getting, which I know people consider slow?
I measured StdGen last year as generating around a million values per second. My mwc-random library is about 100 times faster when running in the ST monad.