On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 11:39 AM, Thomas DuBuisson <thomas.dubuis...@gmail.com> wrote: > Before we bother to do that I think it would be worth deciding what > level of performance we are trying to achieve. On my laptop (Core2 > 2.5Ghz) I generate 4MB of random values in less than 900ms (HashDRBG). > What is StdGen getting, which I know people consider slow?
I measured StdGen last year as generating around a million values per second. My mwc-random library is about 100 times faster when running in the ST monad. _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
