xorshift1024star is a 64-bit PRNG of (2^1024-1) period.
See http://xorshift.di.unimi.it/ for the further details.
MIT License.
(The code under c-example
directory is licensed CC0/public domain.)
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FreeBSD/amd64 10.1-STABLE with Erlang/OTP 17.4 and HiPE
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OS X x86_64 10.10.1 with Erlang/OTP 17.4 and HiPE
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HiPE is not a requirement but recommended to be enabled.
A preliminary test shows the exs1024 functions takes roughly x2 of execution time of random module on a x86_64 or amd64 architecture environment.
Makefile
works on both BSD/GNU makeMakefile.[module_name]
is the real GNU make file; edit this file for modification- Building:
make
- Documentation:
make docs
- Testing:
make tests
- Execution speed benchmark:
make speed
- See also erlang.mk for the details
- More seeding algorithms
- More evaluation and refactoring
Algorithm by Sebastiano Vigna, and he made it public domain.
Programmed by Kenji Rikitake.
Dan Gudmundsson