[issue18756] os.urandom() fails under high load

[Tarek Ziadé]

Tarek Ziadé added the comment:

> Unless you're doing many calls *in parallel* it's unlikely to be a
bottleneck.

That's what we're saying since message 1. Antoine, allo quoi! :)

> os.urandom() is a convenience function, it doesn't have to be extremely
optimized

I suggest that you tell it the documentation then, and explain that it does not scale and people should write their own thing.

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