<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 3:48 PM, Vasyl Pasternak <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:vasyl.pasternak@gmail.com">vasyl.pasternak@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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mwc-random is really fast. But it eats to much memory.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>It creates and returns a vector, so if you ask it to give you a billion items, it's going to require north of 8 gigabytes of memory. This should not come as a surprise, I'd hope :-) Assuming that's not what you actually want, you should look at other entry points in the API, which you can use to generate a single value at a time in constant space.</div>
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