C's rand() function is very bad and should never be used really.
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 11:37 AM, Felipe Lessa <felipe.le...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 7:56 AM, Eugene Kirpichov <ekirpic...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> Here is a variant that uses mersenne-random-pure64 and works less than >> 2x slower than C++: > > And I would like to notice that rand() is incredibly dumber than the > Mersenne twister, so probably if we took rand()'s code from glibc and > rewrote it in Haskell, there would be another performance increase. > > -- > Felipe. > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe > _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
