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2 Aug 2024 08:12:28 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Brute force rendering  
From: Nicolas Alvarez
Date: 3 Mar 2008 17:12:38
Message: <47cc77d6$1@news.povray.org>

>   It's horribly ugly C code. I have made a clean C++ implementation if
> you are interested.
> 
>   I measured the algorithm (compiled with g++ 4.1.2), and with my
> computer (Pentium4 3.4GHz) it generated 150 million random numbers per
> second. According to the author the randomness should be of very high
> quality (cryptographically strong).

How do the ugly C code and your clean implementation compare in terms of 
performance? Pure curiosity.


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