Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 28 Aug 1998 09:51:36 +0200 | From | Marnix Coppens <> | Subject | Re: 2.1.xxx makes Electric Fence 22x slower |
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> >A simple lagged-fibonacci generator like x[i] = x[i-24] + x[i-55] would >do fine. Moving to a twisted generator (TGFSR) improves things even more. >What is arguably the best PRNG currently existing, the Mersenne Twister >(Can you say "perfect score on the spectral test with up to 600 dimensions", >boys and girls?), is quite fast. >
MT19937 has a period of 2^19937 - 1, with a "623-dimensional equidistribution property". It's available from http://www.math.keio.ac.jp/matumoto/emt.html . Don't kill their machine though.
Marnix Coppens
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