Florian Klaempfl schrieb: > Well, once we thought we try to do things better than Delphi ;) Some > people, I think John Lee, asked for a better random in FPC years ago so > Jonas implemented a MT.
I think there are two very different approaches. I wrote a small tool for testing network performance that simply generates a file with random numbers. I used random() for the data because I wanted to avoid any possible compression. There is no need to have a *real* random number in this case. I always wondered, why this program reported slightly faster network transfer in Delphi than in Lazarus/FPC but now I now why. Here it is a bad thing that the calculation of the random numbers impacts the speed calculation. IMO the generation of numbers should be much faster than 100 MB/s but it already delays the whole process.
A completely different thing is statistics. Then you realy need a good random() function. In this case the quality of the numbers is much more important than speed.
But now we have a fast random() function in Delphi and a statistical good one in FPC but none of them has both.
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