RFC - Mersenne Twister (SFMT)

[Bill Baxter]

Jason House wrote:
> Tyro[a.c.edwards] wrote:
> 
>> After reading Julienne Walker's article
>> (http://www.eternallyconfuzzled.com/arts/jsw_art_rand.aspx) on rand() I
>> wondered why the very best psudo-random generator available is not the
>> standard. I looked at the std.random and was not happy to find out that it
>> is slower than I rand() so I attempted to convert Mersenne Twister
>> (again). I'm hoping to get some feedback on how to improve upon the
>> attempt. The actual library
>> (http://www.math.sci.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/~m-mat/MT/SFMT/index.html) comes
>> with code for both 64-bit OSes and more.
>>
>> D version: D v2.007
>> OS: Windows XP - sp2
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Andrew
> 
> I also have a Mersenne Twister implementation available at:
> http://housebot.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/housebot/trunk/housebot/random.d?view=log

Note: Jason's is GPLv3.

--bb