Bram Moolenaar wrote: > I wrote: > > > Patch 8.1.2342 > > Problem: Random number generator in Vim script is slow. > > Solution: Add rand() and srand(). (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, closes #1277) > > Files: runtime/doc/eval.txt, src/evalfunc.c, > > src/testdir/Make_all.mak, > > src/testdir/test_random.vim > > I would appreciate it if someone with knowledge of statistics would give > this a try and check that it's sufficiently random. > > I also wonder if there is something better to seed with than time().
srand() we could read from /dev/urandom, on platforms that support it. According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/dev/random, it's available on at least Linux, macOs, OpenBSD, FreeBSD. Dominique -- -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vim_dev/CAON-T_hyvVq1M8RXMf32t_xWN4SGM27myvsf_oe7pVn_Otvz-Q%40mail.gmail.com.
