Is continuously seeding a random number generator performance intensive?

[monarch_dodra]

On Friday, 3 January 2014 at 13:30:09 UTC, Jeroen Bollen wrote:
> I already considered this, but the problem is, I need to 
> smoothen the noise, and to do that I need all surrounding 
> 'checkpoints' too. This means that it'll have to load in 5 at a 
> time.

I don't see that as a problem. Just because you can load 
sub-regions at once, doesn't mean you are limited to only loading 
one at a time.