[Python-ideas] PEP 504: Using the system RNG by default
Random832
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Wed Sep 16 19:09:43 CEST 2015
On Wed, Sep 16, 2015, at 11:54, Nick Coghlan wrote:
> * random._inst is a SystemRandom() instance by default
He has a point on the performance issue. The difference between Random
and SystemRandom on my machine is significantly more than an order of
magnitude. (Calling libc's arc4random with ctypes was roughly in the
middle, though I *suspect* a lot of that was due to ctypes overhead).
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