Yes I could have a look but no time right now ...

On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 11:07 PM, stepharo <[email protected]> wrote:
> In SciSmalltalk we added some more random generators but people should have
> a look....
>
>
> Stef
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> Le 22/10/15 18:21, Nicolas Cellier a écrit :
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> For these reasons, I often prefer the Marsaglia's KISS
>
> 2015-10-22 17:57 GMT+02:00 Henrik Johansen <[email protected]>:
>>
>>
>> > On 22 Oct 2015, at 2:49 , Tobias Pape <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > On 22.10.2015, at 14:37, David T. Lewis <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >
>> >> On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 06:28:09AM +0000, [email protected]
>> >> wrote:
>> >>> Tobias Pape uploaded a new version of Network to project The Trunk:
>> >>> http://source.squeak.org/trunk/Network-topa.166.mcz
>> >>>
>> >>> ==================== Summary ====================
>> >>>
>> >>> Name: Network-topa.166
>> >>> Author: topa
>> >>> Time: 21 October 2015, 8:26:14.656 pm
>> >>> UUID: d6d9910f-fa67-4c69-9a89-030c81233e90
>> >>> Ancestors: Network-topa.165
>> >>>
>> >>> UUIDGenerator
>> >>> - Use new Random>>#nextBytes:into:startingAt: (needs Kernel-ul.960)
>> >>> for even more speed
>> >>> - Fix UUIDGenerator class>>#initialize to correctly register at
>> >>> startup
>> >>> - Do not reset default on startup but rather reseed TheRandom
>> >>>
>> >>> Timings improved:  '1,190,000 per second. 842 nanoseconds per run.'
>> >>> (0.25 times slower than primitive version)
>> >>>
>> >>
>> >> This is outstanding. The UUID plugin has long been a source of problems
>> >> in
>> >> the VM, partly due to issues in various Linux distributions.
>> >>
>> >> http://bugs.squeak.org/view.php?id=7358
>> >>
>> >> Making the plugin unnecessary is a big improvement.
>> >
>> > Thats what I thought.
>> > Probably we want to present this (Mersenne PRNG + new UUID gen) to
>> > the Pharo core developers (cc) so that we can just remove the UUID
>> > plugin
>> > from the VMs (cc vm-dev)?
>> >
>> > Best regards
>> >       -Tobias
>>
>> In the release version of Squeak 5.0, the Mersenne Twister is initialized
>> using a single seed restricted to 32bit.
>> Has this been changed since to use a wider ranged value?
>> Otherwise, you run into problems with potential collisions from separate
>> image starts rather too fast for UUID uses... (IMHO)
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Henry
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>



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