note 45500 added to function.mt-rand

That's *up to* four times faster. Depending on how rand() is implemented in your libc. The point is that mt_rand() has known performance characteristics, wheras rand() doesn't because it varies from system to system. ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.mt-rand.php Edit -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+45500 Delete -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+45500&report=yes Reject -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+45500&report=yes Search -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php