Re: BZDEV: a common performance-assessment framework

[Rolf M. <ma...@ma...>]

On Mon, 25 Jan 1999, Luc Bourhis wrote:

> I have a Monte Carlo library written in FORTRAN that I want to port in
> C++. Therefore, I need a generator of random doubles uniformly
> distributed in [0,1[. Blitz++ provides two of them (classes Uniform ant
> TT800) but there are several "NEEDS WORK" comments : so what are their
> status ? 

In this context, it may be interesting to notice (and possibly use) the
results of the recent threads on RNGs in sci.math.num-analysis, where
first sombody famous in the RNG world posted C macros with fast RNGs, then
somebody else posted a C++ version that, after compilation with egcs, was
faster than the C macros. 
 
rolf Mantel

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