Gearing up (again) for the next release: 2014.2.0.0

[Nick Smallbone]

On Monday 07 April, 2014 at 04:32 pm, Johan Tibell wrote:
> > Just the implementation. However, another question (which I don't know
> > the answer to) is whether the type of StdGen allows for a proper
> > implementation of split.
> >
> 
> It would be nice if we could just fix StdGen and thus not require a whole
> new library. Will fixing StdGen make it even slower than it is today?

That's the thing - I don't think anyone knows how to fix StdGen!

> I believe the new generator used in QC uses some cartographic hash
> function. I wonder if SipHash has been considered, as it's both fast and
> has good randomness properties (but perhaps not for splitting).

I wonder too! I will ask Michał (the tf-random author) what he thinks
of this.

Nick