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Updated Lib rand (markdown)

Huon Wilson
2013-10-24 04:03:47 -07:00
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@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ Generating random numbers, and sampling from random distributions.
- "The algorithm in its native form is not suitable for cryptography"
- [SIMD-oriented Fast Mersenne Twister (SFMT)](http://www.math.sci.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/~m-mat/MT/SFMT/)
- dSFMT is used by Julia, and possibly Erlang
- A fairly straight translation of the C of the 32 and 64 bit variants of MT19937 appears to be ~10% slower than ISAAC and ISAAC-64 respectively ([benchmarks here](https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/10029#issuecomment-26983157))
- [Xorshift](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xorshift)
- Not crypto quality, but simple, small and fast
- Currently the only other RNG in Rust