[issue16659] Pure Python implementation of random

[Brett Cannon]

Brett Cannon added the comment:

I was talking with Alex Gaynor about the Python implementation of operator (http://bugs.python.org/issue16694) and asked about this bug since Raymond said the fact PyPy had an RPython implementation was a knock against bothering with this. Alex said if performance could be shown to be good then PyPy would be willing to consider dropping their accelerated version and switch to this (http://bugs.python.org/issue16694). So if someone is so motivated, doing a benchmark showing whether PyPy's accelerated version (which is relatively new so you would need to probably grab 2.0 or maybe 1.9) is faster/same/slower than this pure Python version would be nice to have.

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nosy: +alex

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