> Does anyone actually use it? In python, probably not. I used it in EXTRAS at one point though for sure.
> Would it really matter if we had two different > RNGs (one python and once C++) as long as we can seed both of them > reproducibly from a single input value? I don't know that the argument is overwhelming. The biggest concern is that we have a good RNG. Bad RNGs are really bad to use. The biggest problem is that we're already using several different RNGs. Ruby and the testers don't use M5's RNG, but rather random() My reasoning for wanting to use only the RNG in src/base is that it's a proven, *very* good RNG and it would be the single canonical source for randomness. Nate _______________________________________________ m5-dev mailing list [email protected] http://m5sim.org/mailman/listinfo/m5-dev
