For those (very few) of you interested in doing benchmarks of concurrent data structures, or scalable probabilistic counters, you will probably enjoy this post by Dave Dice on PRNGs:
https://blogs.oracle.com/dave/entry/a_simple_prng_idiom
We got into this kind of stuff because, well, my PhD was done using Bootstrap Resampling so having a good random number generator is important, but for our benchmarks of concurrent data structures we need speed much more than we need accuracy, so we had to look a bit into this topic.
This is also related to ThreadLocalRandom, so if you ever used it, you might want to take a look at his post.
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