thaddy wrote on Thu, 28 Jan 2016:
Then wouldn't it be possible to make PRNG's plugable. The Mersenne twister is still good as it is but definitely not suitable for every and any case. Marsialigla's might be a better choice nowadays. And the seeding can nowadays often been done from reading hardware random, like on the Raspberry Pi. e.g. http://scruss.com/blog/2013/06/07/well-that-was-unexpected-the-raspberry-pis-hardware-random-number-generator/
The random number generator is just there as a general purpose tool, for TP/Delphi functional compatibility (not implementation compatibility, as we use a different PRNG). Unlike functionality such as the memory manager and code page conversions, it is not used by other parts of the language or RTL. As a result, there is no need to complicate the system unit by implementing a complete plugin infrastructure for this.
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