hyper-thread-random 0.4.2

Provides hyper-thread local random number generators optimized for recent Intel x86-64 chips with the `RDRAND` instruction; falls back to rand crate for others.
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/// Generates a random u16 for the current hyper thread.
#[cfg(all(target_arch = "x86", target_feature = "rdrand"))]
#[inline(always)]
pub fn generate_hyper_thread_safe_random_u16() -> u16
{
	generate!(u16, ::std::arch::x86::_rdrand16_step)
}

/// Generates a random u16 for the current hyper thread.
#[cfg(all(target_arch = "x86_64", target_feature = "rdrand"))]
#[inline(always)]
pub fn generate_hyper_thread_safe_random_u16() -> u16
{
	generate!(u16, ::std::arch::x86_64::_rdrand16_step)
}

/// Generates a random u16 for the current hyper thread.
#[cfg(not(all(any(target_arch = "x86", target_arch = "x86_64"), target_feature = "rdrand")))]
pub fn generate_hyper_thread_safe_random_u16() -> u16
{
	thread_rng().next_u32() as u16
}