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This patch sequence adds support for building Perl with WELLRNG512a, a modern random number generator by Matsumoto (co-creator of the Mersenne Twister), L’Ecuyer (a major RNG researcher), and Panneton. It is considered superior to the MT family of RNG's. It is suitable for 32 bit and 64 bit builds.
See:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Well_equidistributed_long-period_linear
http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~lecuyer/myftp/papers/wellrng.pdf
You can access the new behavior by adding
-Accflags=-DPERL_USE_WELL512A_RNG
to your favourite Configure invocation. Eg: