Timeline for Whats the fasted bash alternate or implementation to generating random numbers by RANDOM? [duplicate]
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| Jul 22, 2021 at 13:05 | history | closed |
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Duplicate of Using /dev/random, /dev/urandom to generate random data | |
| Jul 22, 2021 at 12:51 | comment | added | Kusalananda♦ | What do you mean by "fastest"? Do you want a single random number, or a million? If you want a single one, then it shouldn't really matter what algorithm you use out of the ones you list. If you want a million (e.g. in a loop), then the shell is the wrong language for you to be using for your application. Also, benchmarks will often depend on hardware, so the "fastest" on one system may well be not the fastest on another, depending on the hardware and the underlying libraries used. Do your own benchmarking. | |
| Jul 22, 2021 at 12:49 | comment | added | Alfred.37 | @roaima, This is good, it describes how to measure the execution time. | |
| Jul 22, 2021 at 12:43 | history | edited | Alfred.37 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 22, 2021 at 12:42 | comment | added | Chris Davies | Related - Using /dev/random, /dev/urandom to generate random data | |
| Jul 22, 2021 at 12:42 | comment | added | Alfred.37 | @roaima, the tested alternate slutions are much slower. | |
| Jul 22, 2021 at 12:41 | comment | added | Chris Davies | Related - Search for "random numbers" on this site | |
| Jul 22, 2021 at 12:40 | history | edited | Alfred.37 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 22, 2021 at 12:37 | history | edited | Alfred.37 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 22, 2021 at 12:12 | history | asked | Alfred.37 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |