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Right, a bad phrasing from my part; I didn't actually mean the distribution, but more like... the bang for the buck. Why would you use slow generator as a default, if you don't even get good distribution?


You get a good distribution in 99.99% of the cases. There is no perfect rng. I am sure that pcg and xoroshiro also have deficiencies. The issue of good seedings is quite general.


Of course there are perfect RNG's. Some of them even quite fast. Good PRNG's eg. do have no seeding problem as most bad LCG's.


Some people are easy to satisfy I guess




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