On Sun, Aug 11, 2019 at 12:37:49PM +0300, Janne Blomqvist wrote: > Update the PRNG from xorshift1024* to xoshiro256** by the same > author. For details see > > http://prng.di.unimi.it/ > > and the paper at > > https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.01407 > > Also the seeding is slightly improved, by reading only 8 bytes from > the operating system and using the simple splitmix64 PRNG to fill in > the rest of the PRNG state (as recommended by the xoshiro author), > instead of reading the entire state from the OS. > > Regtested on x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, Ok for trunk? >
Looks good to me. -- Steve
