Incompatible change to RANDOM

[email protected] (Raymond Toy (RT/EUS))
Newsgroups gmane.lisp.cmucl.devel,gmane.lisp.cmucl.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
 
Just a heads-up.

I've checked in an enhancement to RANDOM that makes random much faster
for numbers between 1 and 2^32 and also gets rid of the small bias in
RANDOM.[1]

This change is incompatible with previous releases since the sequence
of random integers from the same starting state will be different from
before.

Ray

Footnotes: 
[1]  RANDOM was computing random integers using (rem <random 32-bit
     int> val).  This has a small bias in it.
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