Re: [proposal] Concerns about math.random

[Anders Bergh <anders1@...>]

On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 10:04 AM, Jeremy Ong <jeremycong@gmail.com> wrote:
> My recommendation is an implementation of the mersenne twister
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mersenne_twister). MT is known to be
> highly performant and produce high quality random numbers. With the
> new bit shift operators this is a lot more doable. If there's
> interest, I may try to provide a reference implementation for people
> to try.

Actually, MT is known to be exactly the opposite. There are CSPRNGs
with better performance than MT[1].

[1] http://burtleburtle.net/bob/rand/isaacafa.html

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Anders Bergh