https://www.webmaster-forums.net/crss/node/1021897 en https://www.webmaster-forums.net/serverside-scripting/php-mtrand-and-rand#comment-1134917 <p>Hmmm, maybe I shouldn't listen to the User Comments anymore, then?</p> <p><a href="http://us4.php.net/srand" class="bb-url">"...You may also wish to switch to </a><a href="http://php.net/mt_rand" class="bb-url">http://php.net/mt_rand</a><a href="http://us4.php.net/srand" class="bb-url"> which is faster..."</a></p> <p>O well, was interesting to do the benchmark (or whatever you want to call it) anyway.</p> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 19:26:33 +0000 necrotic comment 1134917 at https://www.webmaster-forums.net https://www.webmaster-forums.net/serverside-scripting/php-mtrand-and-rand#comment-1134864 <p>mt_rand() isn't suppose to be faster. It's suppose to generate a number that is closer to a true random number than rand() can.</p> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 07:11:03 +0000 Mark Hensler comment 1134864 at https://www.webmaster-forums.net