2010/4/13 Aaron Sherman a...@ajs.com:
On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 1:55 PM, Larry Wall la...@wall.org wrote:
On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 07:24:37PM +0200, Moritz Lenz wrote:
: 1. do all implementations of Perl6 generate the same sequence, given
the
: same initial seed.
:
: I don't think they
On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 01:29:59AM -0400, Aaron Sherman wrote:
: PRNGs are often misrepresented as frivolous, but as I'm sure you know from
: your work at JPL, high quality random sequences are much-prized, and any
: language that starts off with some poor assumptions will ultimately pay for
: it.
masak wrote:
Modified:
docs/Perl6/Spec/S32-setting-library/Numeric.pod
Log:
[S32/Numeric] removed method form of srand
Overwhelming consent on #perl6 about this.
- multi method srand ( Real $seed: )
multi srand ( Real $seed = default_seed_algorithm())
Seed the generator Crand uses.
On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 12:59 PM, Dave Whipp d...@dave.whipp.name wrote:
2a. If I spawn two threads (implicitly or explicitly), how do their RNGs
interact? I.e. are Crand and Cpick thread-safe?
I've noticed that this is a potentially-surprising source of lock contention
in Java - all threads
Dave Whipp wrote:
masak wrote:
Modified:
docs/Perl6/Spec/S32-setting-library/Numeric.pod
Log:
[S32/Numeric] removed method form of srand
Overwhelming consent on #perl6 about this.
- multi method srand ( Real $seed: )
multi srand ( Real $seed = default_seed_algorithm())
Seed
Moritz Lenz wrote:
1) A RNG class (don't really care what the name is, for now)
2) An instance of that in $*RAND (which you can temp())
3) rand() and srand() act on $*RAND
4) It should be easy to create instances of the RNG to use in your own
class.
The sounds reasonable. The one thing I'd
On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 07:24:37PM +0200, Moritz Lenz wrote:
: Dave Whipp wrote:
: masak wrote:
: Modified:
: docs/Perl6/Spec/S32-setting-library/Numeric.pod
: Log:
: [S32/Numeric] removed method form of srand
:
: Overwhelming consent on #perl6 about this.
:
: - multi method srand (
On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 1:55 PM, Larry Wall la...@wall.org wrote:
On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 07:24:37PM +0200, Moritz Lenz wrote:
: 1. do all implementations of Perl6 generate the same sequence, given
the
: same initial seed.
:
: I don't think they should. If you want that, use confuse a RNG
