Joseph Rushton Wakeling:
Thank you for the work on this. A normals generator is quite
needed in Phobos.
I've so far implemented one underlying engine, the Box-Muller
method currently
used in Boost. This is not the best engine possible -- an
implementation of the
Ziggurat algorithm is desirable -- but it represents what is
typically used in
other libraries.
Using the Boost API is useful. And using D-specific
features/syntax is equally good.
Using the Ziggurat algorithm is desired, otherwise people will
have to implement it outside Phobos, because it's better if you
have to generate many normal distributed values (and sometimes I
need many of them). is it possible to have both algorithms? Maybe
with a template argument?
Bye,
bearophile
