Creating an array of random numbers in Swift is slow

[dnadoba (David Nadoba)]

There are two pitches that would address this:

Pitch: Requesting larger amounts of randomness from SystemRandomNumberGenerator

Introduction I propose adding a new method to SystemRandomNumberGenerator: randomBytes(count:), which will enable generating an arbitrary number of random bytes. This is a minor quality of life pitch that can provide a small but meaningful performance improvement to randomness-heavy code. Motivation SE-0202 introduced the RandomNumberGenerator protocol and provided a single standard library conforming type: SystemRandomNumberGenerator. This SystemRandomNumberGenerator implementation was delib…

An API for bulk random bytes

I'm proposing that we add the following requirement to the RandomNumberGenerator protocol: mutating func fill(_ buffer: UnsafeMutableRawBufferPointer) with a default implementation that uses the existing next() API to produce 64b at a time, and a customized implementation for SystemRandomNumberGenerator that directly requests the specified amount of random bytes from the underlying platform APIs. On its own, this doesn't change much, but we can then adopt it within the standard library in cas…

The later also has an implementation that you could use with some tweaks:
https://github.com/swiftlang/swift/pull/63511/files