Stefano Lanzavecchia wrote:
>> even if the pool is low - but by reading only 4 bytes from
>> random, I have never encountered a delay. 
> [...]
>> Is there a similar/good solution in Windows?
> 
> CoCreateGUID http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms688568.aspx
> generates exactly 4 bytes.
> I use it a lot.

Good idea, and this is cross platform. For example:

   load'guid'

   9!:1 (_2) 3!:4 , guids 1    NB. set random seed

   9!:0''                      NB. read random seed
448790339 _1169755854 1573395364 1858669520

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