2010/1/5 Dale Jordan
The motivation for iterateR is to be able to have the ultimate consumer determine how many random values to force, but still have a single random generator used throughout the computation.
Hi Dale If you want the producer and consumer to run at different speeds with something in-between to synchronize them (velomorphisms anyone?), you might want to look at Jeremy Gibbons's spigot algorithm for pi and also his metamorphisms paper. http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/oucl/work/jeremy.gibbons/publications/spigot.pdf http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/oucl/work/jeremy.gibbons/publications/metamorphis... That said, I've personally found it hard to frame code in the spigot style so I couldn't readily offer any tips on the code you've presented. Best wishes Stephen