Re: [fpc-pascal] RE: Random(), Randomize, and Linux permissions

2004-09-30 Thread Jonas Maebe
On 30 sep 2004, at 05:29, Alan Mead wrote: Thanks for this link. I found a Pascal implementation of MT somewhere .. not this one I think. Is it your code? Do you know the difference between the Real1() and Real2() etc. methods? The 1.9.x FPC rtl already uses the Mersenne Twister. However, that

Re: [fpc-pascal] RE: Random(), Randomize, and Linux permissions

2004-09-29 Thread Michalis Kamburelis
Alan Mead wrote: ... I was hoping that the algorithms underlying the RTL.Randomize and RTL.Random would switch to using MT in fpc version 2. -Alan Reading comments in rtl/inc/system.inc FPC 1.9.x uses Mersenne Twister. Commited to CVS on 2003/10/26 by Jonas. -- Michalis _

Re: [fpc-pascal] RE: Random(), Randomize, and Linux permissions

2004-09-29 Thread Alan Mead
Alan Mead <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was hoping that the algorithms underlying the RTL.Randomize and > RTL.Random would switch to using MT in fpc version 2. Here's the post I recalled: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg01565.html Is this still the case that 1.9.x implements M

Re: [fpc-pascal] RE: Random(), Randomize, and Linux permissions

2004-09-29 Thread Alan Mead
Jeff, Thanks for this link. I found a Pascal implementation of MT somewhere .. not this one I think. Is it your code? Do you know the difference between the Real1() and Real2() etc. methods? I was hoping that the algorithms underlying the RTL.Randomize and RTL.Random would switch to using MT i