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Re:PCG, A Family of Better Random Number Generators by danieltillett on Wednesday July 15, 2015 @04:12AM (#9890257)
The reason why is crypto RNG are much slower than something less secure. It really depends on the application, but in the code I wrote today a significant fraction of my application’s time was spent in the RNG function. By replacing the RNG I managed to speed up my code by a bit over 2 fold. I am not doing crypto work so this is great.
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Re:PCG, A Family of Better Random Number Generators by daurnimator on Wednesday July 15, 2015 @09:56PM (#9895136)
ChaCha is fast. very fast. see just below: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9890599 I'm not sure why they marked it as "fairly slow" in the table in the OP.
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Re:PCG, A Family of Better Random Number Generators by danieltillett on Thursday July 16, 2015 @09:20AM (#9896953)
Fast and slow are all relative - ChaCha is relatively fast but PGC is faster.
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