On 09.02.2012 01:56, Yves Parès wrote:
Hi,
I've been in the past told that mersenne-random was much better than the
standard random package.
...
So is it possible to use the fast and efficient mersenne generator with
the convenient and general random API?
I think design of Random type class basically precludes efficient
generators with large periods and consequently large state.
Look at next function:
> next :: g -> (Int, g)
It means that state has to be copied but for efficiency we want to
mutate it in place. I consider Random type class a failure and ignore
it.
P.S. For monte-carlo and thing like that I'd recommend mwc-random
it more featureful than mersenne-random and don't rely on global state
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