[Haskell-cafe] random library

[William Yager]

The best way to generate random values in multiple threads is to safely
split your random generator every time you fork.

In the case of mwc-random, it looks like you will want to do something like

gen' <- initialize =<< (uniformVector gen 32 :: IO (Vector Word32))
forkIO $ ... gen'
... gen

There is no good reason to share RNG state across threads. Just use a
separate RNG state for every thread. This is inherently thread-safe and
more performant.

If you're forking very frequently, you will want to benchmark the effect of
using a more efficient vector type (i.e. Vector.Unboxed instead of Vector)
or fewer elements during initialization.



On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 9:06 PM, Kazu Yamamoto <kazu at iij.ad.jp> wrote:

> Hi David,
>
> Thank you for your reply.
>
> > I've heard good things about *mwc-random* (https://github.com/bos/mwc-
> random
> > )
>
> Are there any example code to use mwc-random safely from multiple
> threads?
>
> // Kazu
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