Mir Random [WIP]

[Ilya Yaroshenko via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 23 November 2016 at 16:54:44 UTC, Andrei 
Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 11/23/2016 10:52 AM, Ilya Yaroshenko wrote:
>> I started with Engines as basis. The library will be very 
>> different
>> comparing with Phobos and _any_ other RNG libraries in terms 
>> of floating
>> point generation quality. All FP generation I have seen are not
>> saturated (amount of possible unique FP values are very small 
>> comparing
>> with ideal situation because of IEEE arithmetic). I have not 
>> found the
>> idea described by others, so it may be an article in the 
>> future.
>
> Is this a design matter, or an implementation matter? Could you 
> implement the superior FP generation on the existing std.random 
> API?

Real uniform `rand` (-2^^exp, +2^^exp) and real UniformVariable 
[a, b) was added. `rand` dose not use IEEE arithmetic to generate 
a real random number. --Ilya