diff --git a/afl/src/engines/mod.rs b/afl/src/engines/mod.rs
index c4440f42da..bfb3f1ae09 100644
--- a/afl/src/engines/mod.rs
+++ b/afl/src/engines/mod.rs
@@ -321,8 +321,14 @@ where
     }
 
     fn fuzz_loop(&mut self, rand: &mut R, state: &mut S, events: &mut EM) -> Result<(), AflError> {
+        let mut last = current_milliseconds();
         loop {
             self.fuzz_one(rand, state, events)?;
+            let cur = current_milliseconds();
+            if cur - last > 60 * 100 {
+                last = cur;
+                fire_event!(events, LoadInitialEvent)?;
+            }
         }
     }
 }
diff --git a/afl/src/generators/mod.rs b/afl/src/generators/mod.rs
index a5aac2e5a0..1f1fefaa13 100644
--- a/afl/src/generators/mod.rs
+++ b/afl/src/generators/mod.rs
@@ -34,7 +34,10 @@ where
     R: Rand,
 {
     fn generate(&mut self, rand: &mut R) -> Result<BytesInput, AflError> {
-        let size = rand.below(self.max_size as u64);
+        let mut size = rand.below(self.max_size as u64);
+        if size == 0 {
+            size = 1;
+        }
         let random_bytes: Vec<u8> = (0..size).map(|_| rand.below(256) as u8).collect();
         Ok(BytesInput::new(random_bytes))
     }
@@ -67,7 +70,10 @@ where
     R: Rand,
 {
     fn generate(&mut self, rand: &mut R) -> Result<BytesInput, AflError> {
-        let size = rand.below(self.max_size as u64);
+        let mut size = rand.below(self.max_size as u64);
+        if size == 0 {
+            size = 1;
+        }
         let printables = "0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz \t\n!\"#$%&'()*+,-./:;<=>?@[\\]^_`{|}~".as_bytes();
         let random_bytes: Vec<u8> = (0..size)
             .map(|_| printables[rand.below(printables.len() as u64) as usize])
diff --git a/afl/src/mutators/scheduled.rs b/afl/src/mutators/scheduled.rs
index 5d15f8fc6e..eb9f2a0cb5 100644
--- a/afl/src/mutators/scheduled.rs
+++ b/afl/src/mutators/scheduled.rs
@@ -167,9 +167,13 @@ where
     I: Input + HasBytesVec,
     R: Rand,
 {
-    let bit = rand.below((input.bytes().len() * 8) as u64) as usize;
-    input.bytes_mut()[bit >> 3] ^= (128 >> (bit & 7)) as u8;
-    Ok(MutationResult::Mutated)
+    if input.bytes().len() == 0 {
+        Ok(MutationResult::Skipped)
+    } else {
+        let bit = rand.below((input.bytes().len() * 8) as u64) as usize;
+        input.bytes_mut()[bit >> 3] ^= (128 >> (bit & 7)) as u8;
+        Ok(MutationResult::Mutated)
+    }
 }
 
 /// Returns the first and last diff position between the given vectors, stopping at the min len
@@ -292,7 +296,7 @@ where
     /// Create a new HavocBytesMutator instance given a ScheduledMutator to wrap
     pub fn new(mut scheduled: SM) -> Self {
         scheduled.add_mutation(mutation_bitflip);
-        scheduled.add_mutation(mutation_splice);
+        //scheduled.add_mutation(mutation_splice);
         HavocBytesMutator {
             scheduled: scheduled,
             phantom: PhantomData,
@@ -310,7 +314,7 @@ where
     pub fn new_default() -> Self {
         let mut scheduled = StdScheduledMutator::<C, I, R>::new();
         scheduled.add_mutation(mutation_bitflip);
-        scheduled.add_mutation(mutation_splice);
+        //scheduled.add_mutation(mutation_splice);
         HavocBytesMutator {
             scheduled: scheduled,
             phantom: PhantomData,
diff --git a/afl/src/utils.rs b/afl/src/utils.rs
index e02d23f1a0..1ed8ab73e0 100644
--- a/afl/src/utils.rs
+++ b/afl/src/utils.rs
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ use xxhash_rust::xxh3::xxh3_64_with_seed;
 #[cfg(feature = "std")]
 use std::time::{SystemTime, UNIX_EPOCH};
 
-pub type StdRand = Xoshiro256StarRand;
+pub type StdRand = XorShift64Rand;
 
 /// Ways to get random around here
 pub trait Rand: Debug {
@@ -165,6 +165,60 @@ impl Xoshiro256StarRand {
     }
 }
 
+/// XXH3 Based, hopefully speedy, rnd implementation
+///
+#[derive(Copy, Clone, Debug, Default)]
+pub struct XorShift64Rand {
+    rand_seed: u64,
+    seeded: bool,
+}
+
+impl Rand for XorShift64Rand {
+    fn set_seed(&mut self, seed: u64) {
+        self.rand_seed = seed;
+        self.seeded = true;
+    }
+
+    fn next(&mut self) -> u64 {
+        let mut x = self.rand_seed;
+        x ^= x << 13;
+        x ^= x >> 7;
+        x ^= x << 17;
+        self.rand_seed = x;
+        return x;
+    }
+}
+
+impl Into<Rc<RefCell<Self>>> for XorShift64Rand {
+    fn into(self) -> Rc<RefCell<Self>> {
+        Rc::new(RefCell::new(self))
+    }
+}
+
+impl XorShift64Rand {
+    /// Creates a new Xoshiro rand with the given seed
+    pub fn new(seed: u64) -> Self {
+        let mut ret: Self = Default::default();
+        ret.set_seed(seed); // TODO: Proper random seed?
+        ret
+    }
+
+    pub fn to_rc_refcell(self) -> Rc<RefCell<Self>> {
+        self.into()
+    }
+
+    /// Creates a rand instance, pre-seeded with the current time in nanoseconds.
+    /// Needs stdlib timer
+    #[cfg(feature = "std")]
+    pub fn preseeded() -> Self {
+        let seed = SystemTime::now()
+            .duration_since(UNIX_EPOCH)
+            .unwrap()
+            .as_nanos() as u64;
+        Self::new(seed)
+    }
+}
+
 #[cfg(feature = "std")]
 pub fn current_milliseconds() -> u64 {
     SystemTime::now()
diff --git a/fuzzers/libfuzzer/src/lib.rs b/fuzzers/libfuzzer/src/lib.rs
index 17fb1e6409..5abeeb1bbd 100644
--- a/fuzzers/libfuzzer/src/lib.rs
+++ b/fuzzers/libfuzzer/src/lib.rs
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ pub extern "C" fn afl_libfuzzer_main() {
     let mut rand = StdRand::new(0);
 
     let corpus = InMemoryCorpus::new();
-    let mut generator = RandPrintablesGenerator::new(4096);
+    let mut generator = RandPrintablesGenerator::new(1);
     let mut events = LoggerEventManager::new(stderr());
 
     let edges_observer = Rc::new(RefCell::new(StdMapObserver::new_from_ptr(
diff --git a/fuzzers/libfuzzer/test/test.c b/fuzzers/libfuzzer/test/test.c
index 1e8eb75bbc..04d002b2ae 100755
--- a/fuzzers/libfuzzer/test/test.c
+++ b/fuzzers/libfuzzer/test/test.c
@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@ int target_func(const uint8_t *buf, size_t size) {
   }
   printf("\n");*/
   
+  if (size == 0) return 0;
+  
   switch (buf[0]) {
 
     case 1: