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Alex D Herbert commented on RNG-57:
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bq. Why should the number of expected failures be different for each algorithm?

Because they are not all perfect. The DieHarder results show that.

The null hypothesis is that the RNG is perfect and the binomial distribution 
can be used to determine how many failures to expect for the repeated Chi 
square test.


> CachedUniformRandomProvider for nextBoolean() and nextInt()
> -----------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: RNG-57
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/RNG-57
>             Project: Commons RNG
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: sampling
>    Affects Versions: 1.2
>            Reporter: Alex D Herbert
>            Priority: Minor
>              Labels: performance
>
> Implement a wrapper around a {{UniformRandomProvider}} that can cache the 
> underlying source of random bytes for use in the methods {{nextBoolean()}} 
> and {{nextInt()}} (in the case of {{LongProvider}}). E.g.
> {code:java}
> LongProvider provider = RandomSource.create(RandomSource.SPLIT_MIX_64);
> CachedLongProvider rng = new CachedLongProvider(provider);
> // Uses cached nextLong() 64 times
> rng.nextBoolean();
> // Uses cached nextLong() twice
> rng.nextInt();
> IntProvider provider = RandomSource.create(RandomSource.KISS);
> CachedIntProvider rng2 = new CachedIntProvider(provider);
> // Uses cached nextInt() 32 times
> rng2.nextBoolean();
> // This could be wrapped by a factory method:
> UniformRandomProvider rng = CachedUniformRandomProviderFactory.wrap(
>         // Any supported source: IntProvider or LongProvider
>         RandomSource.create(RandomSource...));
> {code}
> The implementation should be speed tested to determine the benefit for 
> {{nextBoolean()}} and if {{nextInt()}} can be improved for {{LongProviders}}.



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