Re: Assembler routine that generates random numbers?

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From: Marinos Yannikos
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 13:19

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sbrown@cee.hw.ac.uk (Stuart Brown) writes:
: [...] 
: random:
:   move.w seed,d0
:   mulu #109,d0

:   add.l #853,d0
-> add.w #853,d0

:   divu #4096,d0
:   swap d0
Why not remove these two and use

	and.w #4095,d0

instead? This will almost halve the time needed to calculate
the random number...

:   move.w d0,seed
:   rts
: seed
:   dc.w 0

-MY

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