std.random and mersenne twister

monarch_dodra monarchdodra at gmail.com
Sat Jul 21 03:28:55 PDT 2012


On Friday, 20 July 2012 at 21:45:17 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> On 7/20/12 8:51 AM, Andrea Fontana wrote:
>> CMWC is proven to be a valid method and it passes diehard 
>> tests. It was
>> written by prof. George Marsiglia (he developed xorshift too - 
>> included
>> in std.random). He was one of the best experts in PRNG.
>
> Would be great if you wanted to contribute an implementation of 
> CMWC to std.random.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Andrei

That's something I could undertake confidently.

Writing both an actual engine, and creating aliases for 
pre-optimized schemes.

I'd just have to wait to finish my current development (I don't 
know how to have parallel forks).


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