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Testing common random-number generators (RNG)

5 mentions on Hacker News by 5 people: 0 stories, 5 comments · first 2018-06-10 · latest 2021-05-02

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  1. …and the xoroshiro family are faster still. https://prng.di.unimi.it https://www.pcg-random.org ETA: https://github.com/lemire/testingRNG
    comment by FabHK · 2021-05-02 · in Evolution of Random Number Generators
  2. PCG is not the only game in town when it comes to high-quality reproducible and fast PRNGs: https://github.com/lemire/testingRNG#visual-summary Notably, some newer PRNGs are faster, and still pass all statistical tests.
    comment by srg0 · 2020-05-19 · in Generating random numbers using C++ standard library: the problems
  3. …seeing the results empirically. For an excellent project testing these and comparing results, see https://github.com/lemire/testingRNG .
    comment by isaachier · 2018-06-11 · in PCG: a family of better random number generators
  4. The linked code ( https://github.com/lemire/testingRNG/blob/master/source/aesc... ) uses Intel's AES instructions directly. Software AES would not be competitive with purpouse built PRNG algorithms speed-wise.
    comment by fulafel · 2018-06-10 · in Minimalist C Libraries
  5. …which is available at [3]. [0] https://lemire.me/blog/2017/09/08/the-xorshift128-random-num... [1] https://github.com/lemire/testingRNG [2] https://lemire.me/blog/2018/06/07/vectorizing-random-number-... [3]…
    comment by stochastic_monk · 2018-06-10 · in Minimalist C Libraries