On Sep 7, 2021, at 4:48 AM, Stefan Zobel
mailto:splitera...@gmail.com>> wrote:
That "influential researcher" is probably Sebastiano Vigna who has indeed
harsh words on PCG: https://pcg.di.unimi.it/pcg.php
That link can also be found on ONeill’s blog, along with her
responses.
https://www.pcg-ra
On 2021-09-07 13:48, Stefan Zobel wrote:
On this blog entry (year 2017), Lemire is not giving any technical or
scientific argument in favor or against PCG.
He also refers to, and quotes from, a blog entry (year 2015) of an
influential researcher (whose work he respects) suggesting the entry
>
> On this blog entry (year 2017), Lemire is not giving any technical or
> scientific argument in favor or against PCG.
>
> He also refers to, and quotes from, a blog entry (year 2015) of an
> influential researcher (whose work he respects) suggesting the entry has
> harsh words about PCG. The fac
Hello,
On 2021-09-05 16:43, Andrew Haley wrote:
On 9/3/21 12:35 AM, John Rose wrote:
The reference I’d like to give here is to Dr. Melissa O’Neill’s
website and articles:
I'm quite sceptical. Anyone who says a (non-cryptographic) random-
number generator is "hard to predict" is either quite
On Sep 5, 2021, at 3:23 PM, John Rose
mailto:john.r.r...@oracle.com>> wrote:
To increase throughput use vectors or generate more than one random sample per
crank turn. But back to back aes steps are probably always twice the latency of
a single wide multiply. So I think there might be some more
On Sep 5, 2021, at 7:44 AM, Andrew Haley wrote:
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> On 9/3/21 12:35 AM, John Rose wrote:
>
>> The reference I’d like to give here is to Dr. Melissa O’Neill’s
>> website and articles:
>
> I'm quite sceptical. Anyone who says a (non-cryptographic) random-
> number generator is "hard to predict"
On 9/3/21 12:35 AM, John Rose wrote:
> The reference I’d like to give here is to Dr. Melissa O’Neill’s
> website and articles:
I'm quite sceptical. Anyone who says a (non-cryptographic) random-
number generator is "hard to predict" is either quite naive or in a
state of sin, (;-) and while O’Neil
On Sep 2, 2021, at 4:35 PM, John Rose
mailto:john.r.r...@oracle.com>> wrote:
The state of the art for PRNGs (pseudo-random number generators) is
much advanced since ju.Random was written.
Surely at some point we will refresh our APIs that produce random
numbers. In fact, we have added Splittabl
