On Mon, 16 Oct 2023 at 09:34, Christian Schneider <cschn...@cschneid.com> wrote:
> > Side note: The implementation of nextFloat() is much more efficient than > that of getFloat(0.0, 1.0) and the output will differ even for the same > seeded engine. The domain of legal return values is identical. > > This sounds like an implementation detail as I'm pretty sure you could > switch to that fast path easily enough if neither of the arguments were > given. > This is not how the engine works, it would require an if-clause on every single call of getFloat() that would probably defeat the point of it. Best regards, George P. Banyard
