[fpc-pascal] RE: Random(), Randomize, and Linux permissions

Alan Mead cubrewer at yahoo.com
Thu Sep 30 05:36:24 CEST 2004


Alan Mead <cubrewer at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I was hoping that the algorithms underlying the RTL.Randomize and
> RTL.Random would switch to using MT in fpc version 2.

Here's the post I recalled:

http://www.mail-archive.com/fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org/msg01565.html

Is this still the case that 1.9.x implements MT?  Hmm.  As, I recall,
MT beat FPC's 1.x random() in my testing using "ent"... I'll have to
take a look again.

-Alan




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