[Bench!][Mir] +54%..+185% performance boost for Mersenne Twister.

[Ilya Yaroshenko via Digitalmars-d]

On Saturday, 26 November 2016 at 20:13:36 UTC, Andrei 
Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 11/26/16 11:31 AM, Ilya Yaroshenko wrote:
>> Hey,
>>
>> 32-bit Mt19937 random number Generator is default in Phobos.
>> It is default in Mir too, except that 64-bit targets use 
>> 64-bit Mt19937
>> instead.
>>
>> The last Mir Random beta improves performance for Mt19937.
>>
>> The goal was to:
>
> Congrats! Also thanks for using the Boost license which would 
> allow backporting the improvements to Phobos. Who'd be up for 
> it?

Yep, I am using Phobos parts and we can do backports. In other 
hand it is requires efforts (I have experience with ndslice, and 
I will be happy to remove ndslice from Mir after LDC 1.2.0 
release).

> Also I'm thinking of removing std.random's dependency on 
> druntime, e.g. by removing the uses of enforce. Thoughts?
>
> Andrei

Another one DRuntime dependency is core time.

BTW, I would be happy to have core.time + std.datetime as unified 
nothrow @nogc library without DRuntime dependency (ahah, it is 
BetterC propaganda!)

Ilya