[New-bugs-announce] [issue33144] random._randbelow optimization

[Wolfgang Maier]

New submission from Wolfgang Maier <wolfgang.maier at biologie.uni-freiburg.de>:

Given that the random module goes a long way to ensure optimal performance, I was wondering why the check for a match between the random and getrandbits methods is performed per call of Random._randbelow, when it could also be done at instantiation time (the attached patch uses __init_subclass__ for that purpose and, in my hands, gives 10-25% speedups for calls to methods relying on _randbelow).
Is it really necessary to guard against someone monkey patching the methods rather than using inheritance?

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components: Library (Lib)
files: randbelow.patch
keywords: patch
messages: 314455
nosy: rhettinger, wolma
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: random._randbelow optimization
type: performance
versions: Python 3.8
Added file: https://bugs.python.org/file47501/randbelow.patch

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