On Fri, 4 Dec 1998, Lennart Augustsson wrote:
>
> > There was a paper
> > published in the JFP about a better way of splitting streams which I think
> > appeared sometime between January 1996--October 1996.
> Are you perhaps referring to the paper by me, Mikael Rittri, and Dan Synek
> called "On generating unique names" (Jan 94). It has a low level trick to
> split streams in a good way that could be applied here.
Looking on the JFP web-page I _think_ I was very off and it was in fact a
1992 paper that I skimmed through one day (whilst leafing through the
entire set of back issues of the JFP trying to orient myself, which
`explains' why I got confused enough to think it was a contemporary
paper).
F. Warren Burton and Rex L. Page. Distributed random number generation.
Journal of Functional Programming,
2(2):203-212, April 1992.
IIRC, it attempts to deal precisely with the point that you want to be
able to pass infinite lists of (pseudo) random numbers (derived from a
central source) into lazy functions without getting (a) bad space leaks or
(b) nasty correlations between the sequences.
Caveat: I've only looked at the title; I may be misremembering again.
Anyway, hope this is of some assistance.
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