-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 9/14/10 23:44 , Isaac Dupree wrote:
(Oh now I see Ivan mentions existing PRNGs that don't (can't?) support split... that may be a reasonable argument; I'll have to think about it; is this the main motivation? or just one observation among many?)
I think it's the main one; that things like the Mersenne twister can't be made instances of Random has stuck in people's craws for a while. - -- brandon s. allbery [linux,solaris,freebsd,perl] allbery@kf8nh.com system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.10 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkyQRPkACgkQIn7hlCsL25WuNQCdE+XCzyytOfzO/2SAU/qk+jpj cx8Anjz9nToSZJNflAaIL3zJiI14iGc8 =nx2g -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----