Re: Please help!
Mark Thornton wrote:
John Ersatznom wrote:
Mark Thornton wrote:
John Ersatznom wrote:
Sun thought using a linear congruential RNG was clever. (And they
use it for cryptography! One random number leaking clues about the
next one can
I believe the crypto routines use a different "secure" random number
generator. The regular use, random number generators are always a
compromise between quality and performance. I think the
java.util.Random implementation is a reasonable one in this context.
MT isn't exactly slow, you know.
Isn't a little slow to initialise or am I thinking of something else?
Fortunately, initialization isn't usually the first place you go looking
for a performance hotspot. In fact, there's three major areas were
random numbers are used extensively:
1. Security/crypto apps and 2. games -- I/O wait times dominate both fields
3. Mathematics (simulations, monte carlo integration...) -- crunching
speed becomes important, but it's calls to the next() method in
innermost loops that will predominate over constructing new instances on
far rarer occasions, or possibly even only once.
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