I want to write a reasonably high-performance simulation program in Clojure. For the random numbers, I'd prefer to use Mersenne Twister (for a number of reasons - it's a well-known, good RNG, and it's commonly used in a number of other languages I use, so it's a good baseline for comparing implementations). The Java RNG, which Clojure uses, is not MT, but Knuth's linear congruential RNG.
Can someone recommend a good Mersenne Twister implementation I could use? A web search finds a number of implementations in Java - presumably I can use these via Java interop - is that a sensible thing to do? I'm also looking to parallelise my simulation, so I'd want to have multiple threads all generating random numbers. I'm not an expert in this field, if I just naively generate random numbers in multiple threads is that OK, or could it compromise the randomness? If there is an issue, has anyone got a pointer to a thread-safe MT implementation that I could use? Thanks, Paul. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
