2011/5/5 Alexander Belopolsky <[email protected]>:
> On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 2:44 PM, Antoine Pitrou <[email protected]> wrote:
> ..
>> (also, I don't understand the spelling issue: "utf-8" just works)
>
> This is probably referring to the fact that while encode() accepts
> many spelling variants, some are short-circuited in C code while
> others require codec lookup implemented in python.

Isn't it cached after the first run? If this is the reasoning, I find
it hard to believe that seed() is a large bottleneck in random.


-- 
Regards,
Benjamin
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