Fernando Perez <fperez528 at yahoo.com> writes: > Note that the above isn't 100% fair, since I'm calling the stdlib > rand, a C-coded simple generator, while v1 calls python's random.py, > a Python-coded Wichmann-Hill one. random.random in python 2.2 and later calls the Mersenne Twister generator, a very fast generator implemented in C.