On 9/11/2013 3:48 AM, Pascal Bit wrote:
from random import random
> [...]
Running on win7 python 2.7 32 bit it uses around 30 seconds avg. Running on xubuntu, 32 bit, on vmware on windows 7: 20 seconds! The code runs faster on vm, than the computer itself... The python version in this case is 1.5 times faster... I don't understand. What causes this?
The random module uses os.urandom, which relies on OS implementations of randomness functionality:
"On a UNIX-like system this will query /dev/urandom, and on Windows it will use CryptGenRandom()."
http://docs.python.org/2/library/os.html#miscellaneous-functions The linux implementation appears to be faster. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
