> That's legitimate, if you have an application that really would be
> substantially faster with a /dev/random. What is this app, and can
> you show benchmarks?
That's right! Show benchmarks, and we'll beat the blue sky out of them by
careful use of an inlined RNG that _must_ beat the cost of doing a system
call + assorted data copies + the actual RNG work. Besides, a program where
the RNG is a significant fraction of the cost strikes me as quite odd...
The _only_ reason for /dev/{,u}random is as a (limited?) source of truly
random bits (AFAIU, the distribution isn't even known to be nice at all!)
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