On Fri, Jun 21, 2019 at 11:39 AM Sebastian Berg <sebastian@sipsolutions.net> wrote:

I am very happy with this new API. Right now we decided to opt for a
SeedSequence object. In the future we may opt to adding a `.spawn()`
method directly to the Generator or BitGenerator. This is mostly a
heads up, since it is a new set of API, which I believe has never been
mentioned/proposed on the mailing list.

We talked about the general desire for this kind of API a few years ago:

https://www.mail-archive.com/numpy-discussion@scipy.org/msg50383.html

The strength of the algorithm provided by Prof O'Neill is what enables this kind of API, which is a sea change in how one can safely build reproducible parallel stochastic programs and libraries.

Robert Kern