I know that to use Xoshiro256++ is better to randomize the seed with a fast rng as splitmix. This enables us to generate the 4 states of xoshiro256++. Is this done by default?

Yes: JuliaLang/julia/blob/02699bb6cd83d16b1e51e2fb127241e18df7c56b/src/task.c#L854 s3 = (s3 << 45) | (s3 >> 19); rngState[0] = s0; rngState[1] = s1; rngState[2] = s2; rngState[3] = s3; …

Random seed initialization with splitmix

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