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Re:PCG – A Family of Better Random Number Generators by aidenn0 on Tuesday November 11, 2014 @02:52PM (#8591783)
The author does not indicate what sort of target the benchmarks were run on, but for comparison ChaCha20/8 which is a more modern secure PRNG compared to the arcfour that they show runs about 10Gb/s on modern hardware.

ChaCha20/20 is a more conservative choice (i.e. there are classes of attacks on ChaCha20/8 that would be infeasible against ChaCha20/20) but runs somewhere between 1/3 and 1/2 the speed of 20/8.

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Re:PCG – A Family of Better Random Number Generators by Uzomidy on Tuesday November 11, 2014 @02:55PM (#8591796)
The benchmark details are in the paper. It's a pretty ordinary Haswell PC.
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