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

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d]

On 11/27/2016 08:28 AM, Guillaume Piolat wrote:
> On Saturday, 26 November 2016 at 20:13:36 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>
>> Congrats! Also thanks for using the Boost license which would allow
>> backporting the improvements to Phobos. Who'd be up for it?
>>
>> Also I'm thinking of removing std.random's dependency on druntime,
>> e.g. by removing the uses of enforce. Thoughts?
>>
>> Andrei
>
> Without druntime, global ctor/dtor and TLS can't be used too.
> Besides nothrow @nogc, std.random relies on a global ctor for creating
> the default RNG, which is used liberally.

I see, so TLS is a problem.

> A useful intermediate step is to have these "[shared] static this" ctor
> call a function instead, so that programs without druntime can call them
> too.

That would be progress.


Andrei