On Thu, 2014-10-02 at 23:35 +0200, Michael Stahl wrote: > * direct usage of boost::random for fancy distributions in Calc, > sc/source/ui/StatisticsDialogs/RandomNumberGeneratorDialog.cxx > > * include/comphelper/random.hxx: > double uniform() function with [0,1) range > implemented with boost::random / MersenneTwister for speed
> ... so i'd guess that the comphelper/random.hxx approach is most > promising for general-purpose random numbers (i.e. not crypto); it even > nicely encapsulates the boost template madness behind a small ABI. > > oh, there is also a <random> header in C++11, likely inspired by > boost::random; i wonder if our new baseline toolchains have support for > this... actually GCC 4.5 release notes list it as a new feature, and > MSVC 2012 has it too: Hmm, little trap here, uniform_int_distribution takes [a,b] range while uniform_real_distribution takes [a,b). C. _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
