Good piece
Good piece
Posted Nov 20, 2012 22:02 UTC (Tue) by mkerrisk (subscriber, #1978)In reply to: Good piece by dlang
Parent article: LCE: Don't play dice with random numbers
> If the tests can't tell the difference between it
> being fed all '1's and random input, then the
> tests are pretty worthless in terms of evaluating it.
> being fed all '1's and random input, then the
> tests are pretty worthless in terms of evaluating it.
To be clear: it is not the *tests* that are being fed all 1s. It is HAVEGE, which then anyway produces good enough PRNG outputs that the test pass.