Message 218384 - Python tracker

Message218384

Author	tim.peters
Recipients	Arfrever, alex, dstufft, ezio.melotti, mark.dickinson, neologix, pitrou, rhettinger, tim.peters, vstinner
Date	2014-05-12.23:46:52
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Message-id	<1399938412.56.0.710335138173.issue21470@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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> Thanks for the explanation. It's much clearer now. Maybe, but it's also overblown - LOL ;-) That is, no matter what the starting seed, the user will see a microscopically tiny span of the Twister's entire period. So all those "provably correct" properties that depend on whole-period analysis remain pretty much theoretical no matter what we do. It's just a "better safe than sorry" thing.

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> Thanks for the explanation. It's much clearer now.

Maybe, but it's also overblown - LOL ;-)  That is, no matter what the starting seed, the user will see a microscopically tiny span of the Twister's entire period.  So all those "provably correct" properties that depend on whole-period analysis remain pretty much theoretical no matter what we do.

It's just a "better safe than sorry" thing.

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