Re: [Chicken-hackers] Patch to use better PRNG on BSD's

[John Cowan]

Peter Bex scripsit:

> I think a cleaner and more robust way is to actually put a PRNG inside
> Chicken itself.  That way all platforms benefit from a good random
> generator instead of it being a hit-and-miss situation.  Chicken ought
> to provide as good an abstraction over nasty annoying OS details as it
> can.

I agree.  I think the sensible candidates are the Mersenne Twister
MT19937, which is used by Python, Ruby, PHP, and Pure; and L'Ecuyer's
MRG32k3a generator, which is used by the reference implementation of
SRFI 27.

Neither of these are cryptographically secure, but I don't think that's
needed in the core.

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