Raymond Hettinger <raymond.hettin...@gmail.com> added the comment:

Some quick notes:

* In issue 33144, we achieved a significant speed-up for 
_randbelow_with_getrandbits() by removing a single test.  The code for that 
method is thin and almost any additional logic will slow it down.

* The attached PR (now closed) causes a performance regression.  Shuffling a 
thousand element list regressed from 505 usec per loop to 576 usec per loop.

* We only promise that the output of random() will be reproducible across 
versions; however, we should have an aversion to changing the output of the 
other methods unless it is really necessary (because it may change the result 
of simulations or random selections which will cause some consternation for 
some end-users).  For seed(8675309), the result of "[randrange(1024) for i in 
range(10)]" changes under the PR from [823, 438, 575, 465, 718, 186, 25, 1015, 
654, 988] to [411, 219, 522, 961, 679, 516, 881, 919, 287, 882].  This is 
allowed but not desireable.

When I get a chance, I'll take a closer look at Mark's suggestion.

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