> > I wonder if we should provide access to DSFMT's random array generation, > so that one can use an array generator. The requirements are that one has > to generate at least 384 random numbers at a time or more, and the size of > the array must necessarily be even. >
> We should not allow this with the global seed, and it can be through a > randarray!() function. We can even avoid exporting this function by > default, since there are lots of conditions it needs, but it gives really > high performance. > Are the conditions needed limited to n>384 and n even? Why not providing it by default then with a single if statement to check for the n>384 condition? The n even condition is not really a problem as Julia does not allocate the exact amount of data needed. Even for fixed-size array, adding 1 extra element (not user accessible) does not seem to be much of a drawback. > > -viral >
