On Thu, 28 Jan 2016, Jonas Maebe wrote:
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.
Indeed.
You can just write and use your own random number mechanism if this is so
important. read /dev/urandom or so...
Michael.
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