7 Apr
2014
7 Apr
'14
12:42 p.m.
On Monday 07 April, 2014 at 06:04 pm, Johan Tibell wrote:
That's the thing - I don't think anyone knows how to fix StdGen!
I was, perhaps naively, hoping that we could just take the implementation of tf-random and dump it into StdGen!
Oh I see! I thought you were asking about taking the existing StdGen and somehow fixing split. I believe that StdGen and tf-random are about the same speed, with the winner depending on which benchmark you use. So I wouldn't expect any big change in performance. But tf-random does link against some C code to do the actual hashing, which I imagine is something we don't want StdGen to do. But maybe with something like SipHash we could make a pure Haskell version! Nick