Flame bait: D vs. Rust vs. Go Benchmarking

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On Wednesday, 24 July 2013 at 20:05:42 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 12:54:19PM -0700, Andrei Alexandrescu 
> wrote:
>> On 7/24/13 2:43 AM, monarch_dodra wrote:
> [...]
>> >The whole of std.random is nothing but problems and pitfalls, 
>> >biting
>> >us and our users on a regular basis :/
>> 
>> What are the other problems aside from value semantics?
> [...]
>
> Value semantics for RNGs are a *gigantic* pitfall.  Joseph 
> Rushton
> Wakeling has pointed out some side-effects such as producing 
> sequences
> with bad randomness properties (e.g. first element of two RNGs
> identical, the rest not; or first element of two RNGs different 
> but the
> rest identical, etc.).
>
> We need to get rid of value semantics for RNGs, and we need to 
> get rid
> of it *now*.
>
>
> T

We need auto ref.
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