Chris, Daniel, it looks like you both volunteered in this thread to be the "random" maintainer.  Whoever it ends up being --  if you would like any backup I'd be happy to be listed as a co-maintainer.  I have some interest in the topic because I was doing a bit of work recently on splittable RNG.  

By the way, what is the feeling about using the FFI and foreign code in core libraries' implementations (aside from unix)?  The reason I ask is that it would be nice to fix the statistical weakness in System.Random.split and I think the best way to do it is:
I did a prototype of this in http://hackage.haskell.org/package/intel-aes, and it seemed to have the potential to make a decent stdGen.  First, this is because on the hardware I tested there was no performance regression relative to System.Random -- the portable, C, AES-based implementation performs a little better than the pure Haskell System.Random.  Second, newer Intel and AMD machines have AESNI, which at least doubles the performance over the portable software version.

So it's a win for both performance and correctness; BUT there's more work to ensure portability across hardware and across Haskell implementations -- so does that tradeoff have any chance for a Core library?

  -Ryan


On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 4:14 AM, Chris Dornan <chris@chrisdornan.com> wrote:

Congrats on the award by the way – you have been winning my own superhero award but it’s cool to see some objective recognition.

 

I had volunteered for random (and anything else you needed) – I thought you were being diplomatic (and maybe you were).

 

Just made the major delivery on my contract so definitely feeling like some good works are in order…

 

Cheers,

 

Chris

 

From: libraries-bounces@haskell.org [mailto:libraries-bounces@haskell.org] On Behalf Of Simon Peyton-Jones
Sent: 07 June 2011 10:43 PM
To: Haskell Libraries
Cc: Simon Peyton-Jones
Subject: New libraries process

 

Friends

Last month Simon M and I put forward a proposal to revise the process for developing the Core Haskell libraries:
        http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Library_submissions/NewDraft

There was some discussion, leading to improvements now incorporated in the draft, but I believe that there was general support; indeed no one opposed the change. 

Several weeks have gone by, so I suggest that we adopt the new process forthwith.  Unless I hear otherwise I'll replace
        http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Library_submissions
with the new process in a day or two. 

We still need volunteers to become the maintainer of
        mtl
        random [though I think someone maybe did volunteer, Daniel perhaps?]
        Win32
Please!

best wishes    

Simon


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