On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 6:42 PM, Nick Smallbone <nicsma@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.