Raymond Hettinger wrote:
[Scott David Daniels]
I find I have a need in randomized testing for a shorter version
of getstate, even if it _is_ slower to restore. [blah about big state]
Sounds like you could easily wrap the generator to get this.
It would slow you down but would give the
Scott David Daniels wrote:
No, I don't really need MT. The others would be fine.
I'd love further details.
The one I've been working with is due to Pierre L'Ecuyer [1]
and is known as MRG32k3a. It's a combined multiple recursive
linear congruential generator with 6 words of state. The
[Scott David Daniels]
I find I have a need in randomized testing for a shorter version
of getstate, even if it _is_ slower to restore. When running
exhaustive tests, a failure report should show the start state
of the generator. Unfortunately, our current state includes a
625-element array.
On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 8:54 PM, Scott David
Danielsscott.dani...@acm.org wrote:
[...] input to .setstate: old, new-short, and new-long. In trying to
get this to work, I found what might be a bug:
code says
mt[0] = 0x8000UL; /* MSB is 1; assuring non-zero initial array */
but probably
Scott David Daniels wrote:
I find I have a need in randomized testing for a shorter version
of getstate, even if it _is_ slower to restore. When running
exhaustive tests, a failure report should show the start state
of the generator. Unfortunately, our current state includes a
625-element
