[cmucl-help] Incompatible change to RANDOM

[Raymond Toy (RT/EUS)]

 
Just a heads-up.

I've checked in an enhancement to RANDOM that makes random much faster
for numbers between 1 and 2^32 and also gets rid of the small bias in
RANDOM.[1]

This change is incompatible with previous releases since the sequence
of random integers from the same starting state will be different from
before.

Ray

Footnotes: 
[1]  RANDOM was computing random integers using (rem <random 32-bit
     int> val).  This has a small bias in it.