Mir Random [WIP]

[Joseph Rushton Wakeling via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 23 November 2016 at 13:01:22 UTC, Andrea Fontana 
wrote:
> I wonder why Mersenne Twister is *always* choosen over other 
> algorithms.

The weight of history, I suspect.  Mersenne Twister was the major 
new high-quality RNG back when people started getting really 
concerned about having good defaults, and when the Diehard Tests 
were the state of the art in tests of randomness.  IIRC there's 
also a benefit in terms of dimensionality, which some more recent 
generators don't address, which can make it a safer "all-round 
default".

Agree that there are probably better choices for today, though.