fix some FIXMEs in random, and take 2 to #9174 #24885
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In "random/RNGs.jl", some code was
unsafe_wraping a pointer of anArray, which was apparently "completely invalid".reinterpretcould work in some case as replacement, but it's not flexible enough, e.g. the following doesn't work:reinterpret(UInt128, UInt32[1, 2, 3]). So we usePtrdirectly, which is the dSFMT API anyway, with anUnsafeView<:DenseArraywrapper which makes the code nicer. So this is a re-implementation of #9174 in disguise, and allows some nice speed-up forrand!on small arrays as a result of allocating less (unsafe_wrapallocates), for examplea = UInt64[1]; rand!(a)has a speed-up of 85% on my machine.