mersenne-random: Generate high quality pseudorandom numbers using a SIMD Fast Mersenne Twister

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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.

cabal install -fuse_sse2

On an x86 system, for performance win.

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


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Versions [RSS] 0.1, 0.1.1, 0.1.2, 0.1.3, 1.0, 1.0.0.1
Dependencies base (<5), old-time [details]
Tested with ghc ==6.8.2, hugs ==2005, ghc ==7.0.2
License BSD-3-Clause
Copyright (c) 2008-2011. Don Stewart <dons00@gmail.com>
Author Don Stewart
Maintainer Don Stewart <dons00@gmail.com>
Category Math, System
Home page http://code.haskell.org/~dons/code/mersenne-random
Uploaded by DonaldStewart at 2011-06-18T18:36:20Z
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To build with sse2 support (core2 and other intels)

    $ runhaskell Setup.lhs -f use_sse2

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