Antoine Pitrou added the comment: > The theoretical properties that make the Twister so attractive were > all proved based on mathematical analysis of its entire period. The > only way to get at the whole period is to allow for all possible > seeds. > > If the seeds Python can use are drawn from a relatively tiny subset of > the possible seeds, nothing can be said about most of the "proved > correct" properties anymore. Maybe they still hold. Maybe they > don't. In the absence of analysis (which, AFAIK, is still too > difficult to do), the only way to be safe is to refrain from being so > bloody "clever" in the interest of saving a few microseconds.
Thanks for the explanation. It's much clearer now. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue21470> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
