[Haskell-cafe] good choice for random number generator ?

Theodore Lief Gannon tanuki at gmail.com
Tue Jul 26 04:51:57 UTC 2016


It's been well over a year since I was looking at RNGs and I'm not sure I
trust my instincts from that far back, but my pick at the time was
pcg-random: https://hackage.haskell.org/package/pcg-random

On Jul 25, 2016 9:35 PM, <briand at aracnet.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 25 Jul 2016 22:30:24 +0300
> Oleg Grenrus <oleg.grenrus at iki.fi> wrote:
>
> > Seems that `vector-random-0.2` is incompatible with new fusion
> implementation of `vector-0.11`
> > Also due “recent” GHC being more strict about pragmas, build fails for
> all GHC >=7.2
> >
> > Data/Vector/Random/Mersenne.hs:85:5:
> >     The INLINE pragma for default method `random' lacks an accompanying
> binding
> >
> > I edited bounds on Hackage to disallow invalid build-plans.
> >
>
> Do you think it's fixable by going through and updating pragmas and such,
> or does it require a more involved rewrite ?
>
> Brian
>
>
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