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Re:Go concurrency isn't parallelism: Real world lessons with... by acadien on Saturday February 07, 2015 @11:39AM (#9014428)
Updating the seed is extra pointless operations but if your PRNG is 'good' it shouldn't cause major numerical problems.

Besides the author is only sampling the PRNG 1 million times, this is hardly enough to stumble upon any periodicity in a modern PRNG. I have absolutely no idea if the PRNG provided by Go is any good or what method it is based off of.

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Re:Go concurrency isn't parallelism: Real world lessons with... by Goopplesoft on Saturday February 07, 2015 @12:11PM (#9014564)
It uses the plan 9 PRNG algo written by Ken (http://golang.org/src/math/rand/rng.go)
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