monarch_dodra wrote:
In theory, there should be no reproducibility breakage, as the generators themselves will not be changed (they are _strictly_ modeled after boosts' (the ones we have anyways)).
Indeed, I just looked at Boost and C++11 implementations, and they currently have these divisions too. Having this kind of reproducibility across languages is a benefit in itself.
bearophile wrote:
Is this to report in Bugzilla?
Sorry, I fear it's a false alarm, and the answer is no. In any case, before advocating such a change further, I would like to know why Boost and C++11 people didn't do that in their realms. Maybe the division is actually more portable. Maybe extracting bits is indeed faster with MT19937, but it can produce poorer quality random values with RNGs which are not so well-distributed bit-by-bit.
----- Ivan Kazmenko.
