Call for testers -- new next-gen random number library

Craig Dillabaugh via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Mon Jun 9 13:53:22 PDT 2014


On Monday, 9 June 2014 at 18:10:50 UTC, Joseph Rushton Wakeling 
wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Apologies for what is effectively cross-posting, but I want to 
> be sure that this announcement reaches the widest possible 
> audience.
>
> I've just published a new dub package that is intended to serve 
> as testing ground for a std.random successor:
> http://forum.dlang.org/thread/cmkzynauxgnfhbpeuejw@forum.dlang.org
> http://braingam.es/2014/06/hap-random-a-new-random-number-library-for-d/
> http://code.braingam.es/hap/random/
>
> This library addresses the long-known issues related to the 
> need for reference-type RNGs, and adds a number of pieces of 
> new functionality taking advantage of that fact.
>
> I was originally going to try and push this as a 
> std.experimental module, but in light of recent discussion on 
> std.experimental's purpose, I think it's best to go the dub 
> route first and get some user experience before proceeding down 
> that route.
>
> So, I'd really appreciate it if as many of you as possible 
> could give this an actual spin (not just reading the code:-) 
> and report on how it works with your applications.
>
> Thanks and best wishes,
>
>     -- Joe

Pretty busy, and not a domain expert, but I will see if I can 
take it for a test-drive anyways.


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