Larry Hudson <org### [at] yahoocom> wrote:
> Interesting...  I played with your test example on my system and got 
> rather different results.  My system is much older and slower -- 32-bit 
> Athlon 2000+, old version of Linux & gcc.

  The fact that the test program uses the 'long long' type might have
a *lot* to do with that. Long longs are slow in 32-bit systems, for rather
obvious reasons (being (sort of) *emulated* 64-bit integers, after all).

  One thing I like about the ISAAC RANG is that it has a *huge* period,
yet it uses 32-bit operations and is very fast.

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                                                          - Warp

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