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Re: Code with random module faster on the vm than the vm host...

From alex23 <wuwei23@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Subject Re: Code with random module faster on the vm than the vm host...
Date 2013-11-11 12:16 +1000
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On 11/11/2013 11:19 AM, Robert Kern wrote:
> On 2013-11-11 00:49, alex23 wrote:
>> The random module uses os.urandom,
>
> No, it doesn't. random.random() is an alias to the random() method on
> the random.Random class, which uses the Mersenne Twister to generate
> values. os.urandom() gets called in the initial default seeding, but not
> for each value.

That's what I get for rapidly skimming the module rather than looking at 
it carefully.

Cheers.

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Code with random module faster on the vm than the vm host... Pascal Bit <pascalbit@hotmail.com> - 2013-11-08 18:48 +0100
  Re: Code with random module faster on the vm than the vm host... alex23 <wuwei23@gmail.com> - 2013-11-11 10:49 +1000
    Re: Code with random module faster on the vm than the vm host... Robert Kern <robert.kern@gmail.com> - 2013-11-11 01:19 +0000
      Re: Code with random module faster on the vm than the vm host... alex23 <wuwei23@gmail.com> - 2013-11-11 12:16 +1000
  Re: Code with random module faster on the vm than the vm host... Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com> - 2013-11-10 17:15 -0800
    Re: Code with random module faster on the vm than the vm host... Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-11-11 01:31 +0000

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