Re: [PATCH] PR fortran/91414: Improved PRNG

2019-08-13 Thread Janne Blomqvist
On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 11:23 PM Steve Kargl wrote: > > On Sun, Aug 11, 2019 at 12:37:49PM +0300, Janne Blomqvist wrote: > > Update the PRNG from xorshift1024* to xoshiro256** by the same > > author. For details see > > > > http://prng.di.unimi.it/ > > > > and the paper at > > > > https://arxiv.or

Re: [PATCH] PR fortran/91414: Improved PRNG

2019-08-12 Thread Steve Kargl
On Sun, Aug 11, 2019 at 12:37:49PM +0300, Janne Blomqvist wrote: > Update the PRNG from xorshift1024* to xoshiro256** by the same > author. For details see > > http://prng.di.unimi.it/ > > and the paper at > > https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.01407 > > Also the seeding is slightly improved, by readin

[PATCH] PR fortran/91414: Improved PRNG

2019-08-11 Thread Janne Blomqvist
Update the PRNG from xorshift1024* to xoshiro256** by the same author. For details see http://prng.di.unimi.it/ and the paper at https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.01407 Also the seeding is slightly improved, by reading only 8 bytes from the operating system and using the simple splitmix64 PRNG to fill