rurban/dieharder
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A fixed version of Robert G. Brown's "dieharder" tests for random number generators.
4 mentions on Hacker News by 1 person: 0 stories, 4 comments · first 2020-10-16 · latest 2021-01-12
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…bad and slow, most other LCG's are miles better. https://rurban.github.io/dieharder/QUALITY.html https://github.com/rurban/dieharder/blob/master/libdieharder... using the intrinsic, not inline asm
comment by rurban · 2021-01-12 · in RDRAND on AMD Ryzen 9 5900X is flakey -
No, different testing strategy. See https://github.com/rurban/dieharder/issues/6 You could remove outliers which occur statistically with a certain chance, cry out at the first encounter, or check weak results again with different seeds to…
comment by rurban · 2020-11-22 · in It is high time we let go of the Mersenne Twister (2019) -
…all the tests. TestU01 later. Actually MT looks good enough to me now. Preliminary results at https://github.com/rurban/dieharder/blob/pcg/QUALITY.md Re PCG: statistical weaknesses compared to the good xoshiro's or wyrand, and much slower.…
comment by rurban · 2020-10-18 · in A Family of Better Random Number Generators -
Recently added to my dieharder: https://github.com/rurban/dieharder/blob/master/dieharder/wy... but I still need to add more tests to get a better quality comparison against the xoshiro's
comment by rurban · 2020-10-16 · in A Family of Better Random Number Generators