http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=10550
Joseph Rushton Wakeling <[email protected]> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Severity|normal |major --- Comment #6 from Joseph Rushton Wakeling <[email protected]> 2013-07-08 02:46:40 PDT --- (In reply to comment #5) > Maybe this bug should have a "major" importance. And maybe a warning note in > site ddocs should be added in the meantime. Agree with the "major" importance, tweaked accordingly. > These tests can help: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diehard_tests These are now a little out of date, but there is the "dieharder" suite which is actually available as a utility in many Linux distros. I plan on incorporating that into my test suite -- I think it should be as simple as just getting D to generate random variates using whatever method and then piping them through to dieharder. > Some people should live longer. Probably some of his collaborators or people > that have used his generators have some errata list or some suggestions to > help. I did not find anything yet, but I'll keep looking. I assumed that his homepage would still exist with remarks like this on it, but didn't track down anything useful so far. There are other people who've written follow-up papers on Xorshift who could be worth contacting. I may do that if I can't find obvious documentary material. -- Configure issuemail: http://d.puremagic.com/issues/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: -------
