[Haskell-cafe] Stable Random Number Generator?

[Thomas DuBuisson]

My recommendation in the past, and now, continues to be this:  If you
want something stable then use something that implements a standard.
I believe MWC generators implement a standard (up to you if you like
them).  The DRBG package Hash and HMAC generators implement a
standard.  The stream ciphers available on Hackage all implement a
well specified unchanging algorithm and produce a stream of random
bits from a seed (ChaCha20 from cryptonite, AES-CTR from many places,
etc etc).

-Thomas

On Fri, Sep 9, 2016 at 8:12 PM, Christopher Howard <ch.howard at zoho.com> wrote:
> Hi. What would be a good library if I want a pseudo-RNG which is stable
> across platforms and compiler versions? By "stable" I mean always produces
> the same values after being given a particular seed. I have a number of
> projects which involve generating some kind of pattern or graphic, where the
> algorithm is either fed values from a RNG, or starts with initial conditions
> generated by an RNG. So, I want an RNG which which produce the same results
> when different users on different systems enter the same seed.
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