Clojure's rand delegates to Java's Math.random(), which I am pretty sure has a synchronized block in it.
One problem with living on top of Java is calling into methods that have no (conceptual) need to be synchronized. This could hurt performance in an app carefully written in Clojure to avoid mutable state and locking. Since unsynchronized PRNGs exist, I would suggest we modify rand to use one. (I am willing to take the lead on writing one in Clojure if needed.) Thoughts? Stuart --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
