Normal distribution

Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Fri Feb 26 12:15:10 PST 2016


On 2/26/16 2:32 PM, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote:
> Yup.  The basic problem of getting this stuff into phobos are the
> architectural problems discussed in that talk.  Unlike uniform
> distribution (which is straightforward to implement as a function, no
> questions asked), the normal distribution is best implemented as a range
> which keeps some state.  So the reference-type/non-reference-type issues
> start becoming a factor.

Would it work to define Gaussian generators as regular generators (same 
as the existing ones), which keep the uniform engine as a member? -- Andrei




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