In our previous episode, Graeme Geldenhuys said: > > And what about people using FPC only and depending on our Random being > > statistically strong, they are less important then theorical Delphi > > migrants? > > [like what was told to me numerous times before] They (FPC users) > should speak up now, or forever hold your peace. And those that have > spoken so far, all seem to be fine with a less statistically strong > default Random(), and have the statistically strong one available in > the Maths unit.
I don't enjoy validating working programs because of this. It's a strange case where people are advocating the introduction of a slower "manager" to improve the speed of random :-) IMHO people wanting a guaranteed fast random, should create a package with a guaranteed fast random, and use that, and not confuse it with compatibility issues. It is only a matter of time before an user wants to create a program that includes a package that wants fast random with a package that wants a reliable reproducable one. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
