> randomized pivot selection I don't see why this is an issue when pseudo-random generators are in fact deterministic yet for purposes of pivot selection the s

> randomized pivot selection I don't see why this is an issue when pseudo-random generators are in fact deterministic yet for purposes of pivot selection the seed does not need to be fresh on each invocation barring an adversarial context, in which you'd just pass in the seed from the effectful part of the program.