OpenEuphoria

Suggestion for 2.4+: Mersenne Twister

• Posted by Rod Jackson <rodjackson_x at hotmail.com> Sep 11, 2001
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Hi all,

Here's an idea I want to toss out, to
Rob for future versions of Euphoria:

While Eu's pseudorandom algorithm is
adequate for most purposes, I've found
a good deal of "pattern" in the results
when used "en masse".

I would suggest that Rob switch to
using the Mersenne Twister; it has
numerous advantages over most other
algorithms. I would make use of it in
IGT myself, with the Euphoria translation
of MT, but an interpreted algorithm
appears to be too slow.

Downside: it could break code. But then
hopefully any software that *depends*
on rand() for consistency would have
taken into account the idea that the
random-number generator could change.

Rod Jackson