"Sean Ross" <sross at connectmail.carleton.ca> writes:
> I'd be interested to see how
>
> s = open("/dev/urandom").read(3000)
>
> compares, and, if better, whether something similar can
> be done on Windows.
On Linux, this is almost instantaneous. Reading 1 megabyte takes
under a second on my 700 mhz P3.