Speed of Random Numbers

[Giovanni Di Maria]

On Saturday, 3 August 2019 at 17:17:23 UTC, Cym13 wrote:
> On Saturday, 3 August 2019 at 16:35:34 UTC, Giovanni Di Maria 
> wrote:
>> [...]
>
> To what extent isn't the quality of randomness important to you?
>
> Your posts reminds me of the way Doom (the original) did it for 
> things like enemy behaviour and shot dispersion: they generated 
> a static table of 256 random numbers once and any time they 
> needed a random byte they just picked the next in the table. 
> They didn't have any security or sciency concern and just 
> wanted to provide a different game each time so that worked 
> well for them. You won't find anything faster than that I think.




Exactly Cym13.
The important is to get a different number
Ok, thank you.
G