Re: OT: RFC, PRNG


"Josiah Carlson" <josiah.carlson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Josiah Carlson wrote:
cr88192 wrote:
2 problems:
I don't like using other peoples' code if avoidable (I am fussy about
this);

Mersenne Twister has been tested, verfied, etc., for about a decade.
While I can't guarantee that

... you won't run into problems with your particular use-case, I have seen
it replace linear congruency generators bit by bit over the years.


but, if I were just going to use other peoples' code, I could just blow off
this whole sub-project and use LLVM (or TinyC), or not bother writing
anything at all...


- Josiah


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