On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 12:14 PM, Marc Glisse <marc.gli...@inria.fr> wrote: >> Currently the random number engine interface is >> inefficient since it returns a single number. What we need is an >> additional interface to return vectors. > > > Isn't the __generate interface good enough?
__generate is for the distributions. I'm talking about the engines. Bulk access isn't that easy there. The stream is deterministic and if I request 32 bytes of entropy although I only need 16 bytes I cannot push back the remaining 16 bytes. Without that the next use of the engine would produce different bits.
