php5random.py is a library which provides CPython bindings of the PHP 5 implementation of the random number generator, written in Rust!
from php5random import Php5Random
seed = 1337
rng = Php5Random(seed)
print(rng.rand_range(1, 100)) # prints 14
print(rng.rand()) # prints 1638893262I needed an implementation of the rand and srand functionality you'd find in libc, but:
- the values aren't consistent cross-platform
- it's not thread-safe
...and this solves that blazingly fast!
In the bench folder you'll find two files. python.py, and rust.py. After running them on my 8-core 2.4GHz Intel Mac from 2019, I get the following (rounded to 3 decimals):
python.py:1.221srust.py:0.410s
Making Rust nearly 3x faster!
PRs welcome!