Partly to be argumentative, but maybe it will illuminate
the portability philosophy... Do we guarantee that sin/cos/exp/log
are all the same? Or even decimal to binary conversion?
I would personally be very disappointed with a random() function
that was, say, 100 times slower than the native one. And that
might be the case. If someone wants a machine independent random,
provide one in the share library.
:)
RJF
Stavros Macrakis wrote:
>Having the same generator on every platform would be ideal.
>
>Almost as good would be some cross-platform way of saying "I want to
>restart my random sequence from a defined point".
>
> -s
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