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ASF GitHub Bot commented on STORM-1650: --------------------------------------- Github user revans2 commented on the pull request: https://github.com/apache/storm/pull/1250#issuecomment-200363377 How does the performance compare to http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/util/concurrent/ThreadLocalRandom.html which is also not thread safe, but more standard? > improve performance by XORShiftRandom > ------------------------------------- > > Key: STORM-1650 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/STORM-1650 > Project: Apache Storm > Issue Type: Improvement > Reporter: John Fang > Assignee: John Fang > > '''Implement a random number generator based on the XORShift algorithm > discovered by George Marsaglia. This RNG is observed 4.5 times faster than > {@link Random} in benchmark, with the cost that abandon thread-safety. So > it's recommended to create a new {@link XORShiftRandom} for each thread.''' -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)