The mersenne-random package (version 0.1)
The Mersenne twister is a pseudorandom number generator developed by Makoto Matsumoto and Takuji Nishimura that is based on a matrix linear recurrence over a finite binary field. It provides for fast generation of very high quality pseudorandom numbers
This library uses SFMT, the SIMD-oriented Fast Mersenne Twister, a variant of Mersenne Twister that is much faster than the original. It is designed to be fast when it runs on 128-bit SIMD. It can be compiled with either SSE2 and PowerPC AltiVec support, to take advantage of these instructions.
By default the period of the function is 2^19937-1, however, you can compile in other defaults. Note that this algorithm on its own is not cryptographically secure.
For more information about the algorithm and implementation, see the SFMT homepage,
http://www.math.sci.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/~m-mat/MT/emt.html
and, Mutsuo Saito and Makoto Matsumoto, SIMD-oriented Fast Mersenne Twister: a 128-bit Pseudorandom Number Generator, in the Proceedings of MCQMC2006, here:
http://www.math.sci.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/~m-mat/MT/ARTICLES/sfmt.pdf
| Other versions | 0.1.1, 0.1.2 |
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| Dependencies | base (<3) or base (>=3), old-time |
| License | BSD3 |
| Copyright | (c) 2008. Don Stewart <dons@galois.com> |
| Author | Don Stewart |
| Maintainer | Don Stewart <dons@galois.com> |
| Category | Math, System |
| Home page | http://code.haskell.org/~dons/code/mersenne-random |
| Exposed modules | System.Random.Mersenne |
| Upload date | Mon Jan 21 19:50:41 PST 2008 |
| Uploaded by | DonaldStewart |
| Built on | ghc-6.8 |
Downloads
- mersenne-random-0.1.tar.gz (Cabal source package)
- package description (included in the package)