Hi,
In message "Objectify the mersenne twister in 1.8?"
on 03/02/25, Robert Feldt <feldt / ce.chalmers.se> writes:
|I'd like to know any reasons not to go down that route. The added
|complexity would be minimal since the mt algorithm is already in the
|interpreter.
Historical reason. The API was defined under the influence of UNIX
rand(3). Mersenne Twister was its drop-in replacement. I don't
object to objectify RNG (no pun intended). It's just not yet done,
and I have no driving force to do it right now.
matz.