On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 3:48 PM, Vasyl Pasternak <vasyl.paster...@gmail.com>wrote:
> > mwc-random is really fast. But it eats to much memory. It creates and returns a vector, so if you ask it to give you a billion items, it's going to require north of 8 gigabytes of memory. This should not come as a surprise, I'd hope :-) Assuming that's not what you actually want, you should look at other entry points in the API, which you can use to generate a single value at a time in constant space.
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