Message 108478 - Python tracker

Message108478

Author	pitrou
Recipients	belopolsky, mark.dickinson, orsenthil, pitrou, rhettinger, terry.reedy, vstinner
Date	2010-06-23.19:26:21
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> Some considerations for the PRNG are: > * equidistribution (for quality) > * repeatability from the same seed (even in multithreaded environments) I believe a reasonable (com)promise would be to guarantee repeatability accross a given set of bugfix releases (for example, accross all 2.6.x releases). We shouldn't necessarily commit to repeatability accross feature releases, especially if it conflicts with desireable opportunities for improvement.

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> Some considerations for the PRNG are:
> * equidistribution (for quality)
> * repeatability from the same seed (even in multithreaded environments)

I believe a reasonable (com)promise would be to guarantee repeatability
accross a given set of bugfix releases (for example, accross all 2.6.x
releases). We shouldn't necessarily commit to repeatability accross
feature releases, especially if it conflicts with desireable
opportunities for improvement.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2010-06-23 19:26:22	pitrou	set	recipients: + pitrou, rhettinger, terry.reedy, mark.dickinson, belopolsky, orsenthil, vstinner
2010-06-23 19:26:21	pitrou	link	issue9025 messages
2010-06-23 19:26:21	pitrou	create