From: Eli Billauer <eli_billauer@users.sf.net>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: David Mosberger-Tang <David.Mosberger@acm.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] frandom - fast random generator module
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 21:28:58 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F8EF17A.2040502@users.sf.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ugzng1axel.fsf@panda.mostang.com>
Allow me to supply a couple facts about frandom:
* It's not a "crappy" RNG. Its RC4 origins and the fact, that it has
passed tests indicate the opposite. A fast RNG doesn't necessarily mean
a bad one. I doubt if any test will tell the difference between frandom
and any other good RNG. You're most welcome to try.
* Frandom is written completely in C. On an i686, gcc compiles the
critical part to 26 assembly instructions per byte, and I doubt if any
hand assembly would help significantly. The algorithms is clean and
simple, and the compiler performs well with it.
Eli
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2003-10-16 17:46 ` [RFC] frandom - fast random generator module David Mosberger-Tang
2003-10-16 19:28 ` Eli Billauer [this message]
2003-10-16 20:42 ` Andreas Dilger
2003-10-21 19:46 ` bill davidsen
2003-10-16 21:30 ` Matt Mackall
2003-10-16 8:22 Eli Billauer
2003-10-16 8:36 ` Nick Piggin
2003-10-16 10:20 ` Eli Billauer
2003-10-16 10:48 ` Nick Piggin
2003-10-16 11:29 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-10-16 12:27 ` Eli Billauer
2003-10-16 15:10 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-10-16 16:20 ` Andreas Dilger
2003-10-16 16:31 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-10-16 18:18 ` Andreas Dilger
2003-10-16 18:52 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-10-16 19:31 ` Matt Mackall
2003-10-16 20:40 ` Andreas Dilger
2003-10-16 21:03 ` David Wagner
2003-10-16 23:17 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-10-16 23:42 ` Andreas Dilger
2003-10-17 0:34 ` David Wagner
2003-10-16 17:45 ` Matt Mackall
2003-10-16 18:38 ` Andreas Dilger
2003-10-16 19:08 ` Matt Mackall
2003-10-16 20:27 ` Andreas Dilger
2003-10-16 20:37 ` Matt Mackall
2003-10-16 17:31 ` Matt Mackall
2003-10-16 23:03 ` Eli Billauer
2003-10-16 23:07 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-10-16 23:13 ` Matt Mackall
2003-10-16 23:35 ` jw schultz
2003-10-21 19:24 ` bill davidsen
2003-10-21 19:55 ` bill davidsen
2003-10-21 21:21 ` Helge Hafting
2003-10-21 22:18 ` bill davidsen
2003-10-22 1:04 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-10-21 19:17 ` bill davidsen
2003-10-21 21:00 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-10-21 22:08 ` bill davidsen
2003-10-22 1:06 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-10-22 2:56 ` jw schultz
2003-10-22 16:22 ` Kent Borg
2003-10-23 2:46 ` Dale Farnsworth
2003-10-23 3:22 ` Sandy Harris
2003-10-23 14:15 ` Kent Borg
2003-10-24 17:37 ` bill davidsen
2003-10-24 17:54 ` Theodore Ts'o
2003-10-24 20:59 ` David Wagner
2003-10-24 21:33 ` jw schultz
2003-10-22 3:49 ` Sandy Harris
2003-10-16 10:45 ` Ingo Oeser
2003-10-21 19:30 ` bill davidsen
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