monarch_dodra:
The Lagged Fibonacci generator has interesting properties: For starters, you can generate integers or floats with it. With floats, it generates numbers in a 0 .. 1 range, making it a very nice generator for users that want simple uniform floating point generation in that range.
What is its relative performance (measured with LDC2 and/or GDC) compared to Xorshift and the Mersenne Twister when it is used to generate integers and when it's used to generate floating point numbers in 0..1 (for the floating point case you have to use something like random01 to have a fair comparison)?
In terms of quality, I'm no expert, but supposedly, it's supposed to be good, when properly seeded.
Before being merged into Phobos someone has to measure a bit the actual quality of the random numbers it produces. To avoid problems like the ones had with Xorshift. There are suites and tools to measure the quality of random numbers, like a more modern version of the famous diehard.
Bye, bearophile
