7 Apr
2014
7 Apr
'14
11:23 a.m.
On Monday 07 April, 2014 at 04:32 pm, Johan Tibell wrote:
Just the implementation. However, another question (which I don't know the answer to) is whether the type of StdGen allows for a proper implementation of split.
It would be nice if we could just fix StdGen and thus not require a whole new library. Will fixing StdGen make it even slower than it is today?
That's the thing - I don't think anyone knows how to fix StdGen!
I believe the new generator used in QC uses some cartographic hash function. I wonder if SipHash has been considered, as it's both fast and has good randomness properties (but perhaps not for splitting).
I wonder too! I will ask Michał (the tf-random author) what he thinks of this. Nick