Re: 2.1.xxx makes Electric Fence 22x slower

Marnix Coppens (maco@telindus.be)
Fri, 28 Aug 1998 09:51:36 +0200


>
>A simple lagged-fibonacci generator like x[i] = x[i-24] + x[i-55] would
>do fine. Moving to a twisted generator (TGFSR) improves things even more.
>What is arguably the best PRNG currently existing, the Mersenne Twister
>(Can you say "perfect score on the spectral test with up to 600 dimensions",
>boys and girls?), is quite fast.
>

MT19937 has a period of 2^19937 - 1, with a "623-dimensional equidistribution
property". It's available from http://www.math.keio.ac.jp/matumoto/emt.html .
Don't kill their machine though.

Marnix Coppens

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