Making re-creatable random data files really fast in python.
Jesse Noller:
Making re-creatable random data files really fast in python.
["I wanted to be able to use a seed made of integers which only make sense to me that embeds certain data relevant to the test within it, so the seed would have both random and not-random integers in it. I also wanted to avoid using /dev/random and /dev/urandom - both are deceptively fast until you fire it up using a bunch of threads and drain your entropy pool. Not to mention - I want it fast, so I don't want to have an extra read() call. I need the data put in the file to be a "known thing" - i.e: randomly generated from a non-random pool of data (a words file)."]
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