On 8/26/13 12:18 AM, Erik Huelsmann wrote:
Hi Rich,
On Aug 25, 2013 11:51 PM, "Rich Morin" <rdm@cfcl.com mailto:rdm@cfcl.com> wrote:
I'm involved with a project that uses Steel Bank Common Lisp (SBCL). I'm interested in the possibility of moving it to ABCL, in order to take advantage of interoperability with some other JVM languages (eg, Clojure, JRuby, Jython).
FYI, the project software currently uses several requires:
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(require :MT19937) ; Mersenne Twister random number generator
No idea about this one. Never heard about problems with it, but I expect that to be because noone tried it yet.
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MT19937 works fine, but could use better statistics-based tests to show that the resulting distribution of random numbers is indeed statistically random for your purposes.
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