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Antoine Pitrou added the comment:
If we were to add another generator, I prefer that we add one with
some completely different characteristics (such as being
cryptographically strong). I don't want to take the default generator
and periodically switch it out with the flavor of the month
New submission from James Lu:
http://www.math.sci.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/~m-mat/MT/SFMT/index.html#dSFMT
You might want to use a better algorithm
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Christian Heimes added the comment:
Do you want to provide a patch for Python's random module?
PS: Please do not upload files that can easily be downloaded from a 3rd party
site. It just fills disk space on our server and doesn't provide a benefit for
us.
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Raymond Hettinger added the comment:
The bar is rather high for changing the current algorithm which is well
studied, has a long period, and is reasonably fast. I do not recommend jumping
straight into making a patch before we get agreement that we really want
another PRNG when the current
