Re: randn benchmarks

[Paul Kienzle]

On Jan 23, 2004, at 7:36 AM, David Bateman wrote:
> ... In any case, the ziggurat code in
> this paper is for 2^32 bit seeds, which is a bit short for my liking.
> I'd prefer to target a 64 bit seed as does matlab, so a possible
> solution is just to rewrite the code from the paper for a 64 bit
> seed..

Do you want to generate 53 bits of precision in rand() or are you
happy with 32 bit?  It will of course slow down the code by almost
a factor of two.

Paul Kienzle
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