Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] random returns the same number on x86_64 all the time

[Peter Bex]

On Sun, Mar 04, 2012 at 05:32:22PM +0100, Peter Bex wrote:
> Thanks, Jim; I used most-positive-fixnum here because I figured it should
> try to use as many bits as there are available; on 64 bit systems that
> may be 54 bits and on 32 bit systems that'll be 30 bits.

We had a talk on IRC and it seems to us that it's time to bring in
a better PRNG into Chicken core.  In the meanwhile, hash tables
should use as much randomization as is available, which is simply
RAND_MAX, which means we can just use the result of rand() directly.

The attached patch makes this happen.

Cheers,
Peter
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