[LLVMdev] A create-distinct-item function with no (other) side effects

[Eli Friedman]

On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 5:56 PM, Kenneth Uildriks<kennethuil at gmail.com> wrote:
> It would also
> help optimize away calls to "random" in some cases.

If you're talking about the Unix random(), it does has visible side
effects, specifically related to the guarantee that an srandom call
followed by N random() calls will always produce the same sequence of
N numbers.

-Eli