hap.random: a new random number library for D

[bearophile via Digitalmars-d-announce]

Joseph Rushton Wakeling:

> Forgive me if I'm missing something obvious, but as it stands I 
> don't see how the R250/521 algorithm you pointed me to can be 
> strongly pure.

Sorry, the R250/521 idea and the strongly pure idea are unrelated 
to each other.


> but wouldn't that be a memory allocation nightmare?

For the strongly pure random generator we should choose a 
generator with a small internal state (let's say less than 5 CPU 
words, they get passed by immutable value).

Bye,
bearophile