10 Oct
2009
10 Oct
'09
9:47 a.m.
On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 9:59 AM, Michael Mossey
I would like to know if this is a good way to do this job, both from the point of view of elegance and efficiency. Maybe it needs to be more strict? I may create lists of 100,000 elements and don't want to run into space/time problems.
I think the principal advice we can give you is not to use System.Random : while the interface is pleasant the performances are excruciatingly bad... Try one of the alternative like the recently released statistics package or the mersenne-random package by dons. A recent blog post that shows the problem : http://www.serpentine.com/blog/2009/09/19/a-new-pseudo-random-number-generat... -- Jedaï