[Raymond Hettinger] > I'm filling in while Brett is on vacation. To make everyone > appreciate his formatting and lucidity, I'll skip the > reStructuredText and write in my own terse style. It has its virtues! For example, I actually read this to the end <wink>. > ... > Python has more than one place that is vulnerable to 32 bit word > overflows unless a bunch of tests are put in place to catch unusual > highly contrived cases that never come up in real world examples. > Since the fixes would be ugly, wordy, and slow, it was decided to > leave them alone. That's just what I would do (i.e., leave them alone). Security Weenies will eat me for lunch because of it, and I don't think anyone else wants to join me at the center of the buffet. That is, this boondoggle had an Air of Inevitability to it. Curious: We're missing a section about your new implementation of the Mersenne Twister <wink>. Speaking of which, I haven't been able to get a copy, but Marsaglia (a Big Name in the field) has another new generator called "The Monster", supposedly described in a preprint, that's simpler than the Twister and has a much longer period (on the order of 10**8000; in contrast, Python's current generator has period ~10**12). By "simpler", I mean that if you read the paper by the Twister's authors, you walked away from it knowing less than when you started <0.6 wink>.
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