On May 26, 2011, at 6:15 PM, Dave Keck wrote: > I'm not sure what your problem is, but I believe arc4random() has superseded > random() for a while now.
Incorrect. There are many reason to have a seedable PRNG, the least of which is the ability to reasonably debug the randomness. That an arc4random() is meant for cryptographic security, and as such using it suffers a performance tradeoff. As an example of "debugging the randomness" I recently created a graphical effect that relied heavily on random number generation. I needed to debug an issue that occurred 2 minutes into the sequence and relatively rare. The only reason I could reasonably debug the issue like this was because I had control over the sequence of numbers that I was seeing. -- David Duncan _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
