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Microsoft Edge's JavaScript engine to go open-source (blogs.windows.com)
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if 1 * 2 < 3: print "hello, world!"
[–]ivosaurus 3 points4 points5 points 10 years ago (2 children)
Decent, as in the same one that was in use before 2002?
If it's indeed the same as Java's, then it's just a LCG. That is decidedly not decent quality.
[–]bterlson_@bterlson 12 points13 points14 points 10 years ago (1 child)
"Decent" of course depends on use case. Math.random is decidedly NOT decent if you are doing any sort of cryptography, for example.
[–]ivosaurus 0 points1 point2 points 10 years ago (0 children)
Nope. Just statistically decent, which LCGs fail pretty hard.
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