On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 21:34:10 -0700, Steve Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The following code produces about a half-million random 32-bit
> integers/sec. on my Pentium M 1.7Ghz based Latitude D800:
>
> byte[] buf = new byte[4];
>
> RNGCryptoServiceProvider rng = new RNGCryptoServiceProvider();
>
Forgot to mention that the following line is what you would do in a
loop. The buffer is allocated only once and the RNG is created only
once.
> int val = Rand(buf, rng);
>
> ...
>
> int Rand(byte[] buffer, RNGCryptoServiceProvider rng)
> {
> rng.GetBytes(buffer);
> return BitConverter.ToInt32(buffer, 0);
> }
--
Steve Johnson
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