On 2013-07-15, at 9:02 AM, Aleksey Shipilev <[email protected]> wrote: > The conclusion is: SR is a reasonable alternative with no obvious > performance show-stoppers. That said, TLR is also reasonably fast at > this point, and further improvements to TLR will probably beat the SR or > tie it on most scenarios.
I think that depends on the nature of the improvements. TLR doesn't currently pass DieHarder; that's a problem for some people. An additional advantage of SR (as I understand it) is that it allows deterministic replay of the random numbers in a given fork-join tree. David
