Re:The definitive guide to “modulo bias” and how to avoid it...
by anomalroil on Thursday September 15, 2022 @07:50AM
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Lemire's technique is really nice, in general a good thing to learn about, since it's a bit mind bending how it's playing with intervals. Sadly last time I benchmarked it in code on x86-64 for cryptographic purposes, it wasn't faster than rejection sampling, or just using a large value and a modulo reduction: in all cases what is actually taking a lot of time is the call to get good quality randomness out of a CSPRNG, the rest being negligible in comparison.
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