On Saturday, 21 July 2012 at 16:32:56 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
On 7/21/12 6:28 AM, monarch_dodra wrote:
On Friday, 20 July 2012 at 21:45:17 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
On 7/20/12 8:51 AM, Andrea Fontana wrote:
CMWC is proven to be a valid method and it passes diehard
tests. It was
written by prof. George Marsiglia (he developed xorshift too
- included
in std.random). He was one of the best experts in PRNG.
Would be great if you wanted to contribute an implementation
of CMWC
to std.random.
Thanks,
Andrei
That's something I could undertake confidently.
Writing both an actual engine, and creating aliases for
pre-optimized
schemes.
I'd just have to wait to finish my current development (I
don't know how
to have parallel forks).
That would be awesome (both RNG and getting fluent with
parallel forks).
Andrei
I gave it a shot, but I just couldn't find enough documentation
on CMWC to write a correctly parametrizable engine. I honestly
don't have much to go by other than wikipedia's example. I could
force the implementation, but I'd have zero faith in it's
reliability.
That said, I don't think it would be a bad idea to add a Lagged
Fibonacci generator first. The generator already exists in boost,
and is much more documented. The actual development would just
require a port.
I'll try to get *that* done, but for CMWC, I'm out. Sorry.
The bright side is I learned to parallel fork :D
