/dev/random will slow you down if you pull lots of bits and are on a machine without lots of entropy available via network interfaces and active disks.
But unit tests should have fixed seeds in any case for determinism if for no other reason. On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 4:10 AM, deneche abdelhakim <a_dene...@yahoo.fr>wrote: > I used MerseneTwisterRNG a lot and noticed it somehow slows down the unit > tests, maybe because it always tries to get a random seed from the net. > -- Ted Dunning, CTO DeepDyve
