Random.Xorshift

Xorshift random generators. The generators are implemented according to the paper http://www.jstatsoft.org/v08/i14/paper by George Marsaglia. You can use the RandomGen instances to generate random numbers easily. This module only exports the Random generator that matches your word size, if you want to use a specific length, try Random.Xorshift.Int32 and Random.Xorshift.Int64 instead.

Documentation

type Xorshift = Xorshift32

The type Xorshift is a wrapper around either Xorshift32 or Xorshift64, depending on the bit size of your system. The idea behind this is, that you may want to use this package as an uncomplicated, fast random generator, but repeated conversion between different word sizes are an absolute performance killer.

Thus, if you don't really care about the period of your random generator or how long the result is, use the Xorshift synonym, whenever possible.

newXorshift :: IO Xorshift

Generates a new Xorshift from the current time. This is either a synonym for newXorshift32 or newXorshift64.

makeXorshift :: Integral a => a -> Xorshift

Generate a new Xorshift generator, regardless of whatever it's bytesize is on your platform.

module System.Random