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| author | Sebastian Wilhelmi <wilhelmi@ira.uka.de> | 2002-12-10 13:50:40 +0000 |
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| committer | Sebastian Wilhelmi <wilhelmi@src.gnome.org> | 2002-12-10 13:50:40 +0000 |
| commit | 1c462ac694a957ec1355c2e0875b54705132c8eb (patch) | |
| tree | 1d05a7c3a8f72725919bde29a33d3fbb3e65b522 /README.in | |
| parent | 657428da90bec3b77c768d28dd51c2a1103bf88d (diff) | |
Improve generation of pseudo-random integers. (#99720, Morten Welinder
2002-12-10 Sebastian Wilhelmi <wilhelmi@ira.uka.de>
* glib/grand.c (g_rand_int_range): Improve generation of
pseudo-random integers. (#99720, Morten Welinder <terra@diku.dk>)
* README.in, docs/reference/glib/running.sgml,
docs/reference/glib/tmpl/random_numbers.sgml,
docs/reference/glib/changes.sgml: Added notes about the new
algorithm.
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1 files changed, 10 insertions, 5 deletions
@@ -34,11 +34,16 @@ Notes about GLib-2.2.0 http://www.math.keio.ac.jp/~matumoto/emt.html - The original seeding algorithm, as found in GLib-2.0.x, can be used - instead of the new one by setting the environment variable - G_RANDOM_VERSION to the value of "2.0". Use the GLib-2.0 algorithm - only if you have sequences of numbers generated with Glib-2.0 that - you need to reproduce exactly. + Also the pseudo-random integers generated by g_rand_int_range and + g_random_int_range will have a slightly better equal distribution + with the new version of GLib. + + The original algorithms, as found in GLib-2.0.x, can be used instead + of the new ones by setting the environment variable G_RANDOM_VERSION + to the value of "2.0". + + Use the GLib-2.0 algorithms only if you have sequences of numbers + generated with Glib-2.0 that you need to reproduce exactly. How to report bugs ================== |