That author has a history of extreme bias and almost-vindictive personal attacks on the author of PCG. See the reddit comments: https://www.reddit.com/r/progra

That author has a history of extreme bias and almost-vindictive personal attacks on the author of PCG. See the reddit comments: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/8jbkgy/the_wrapup_on_pcg_generators/ https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/8jbkgy/the_wra... And the PCG author's response: https://www.pcg-random.org/posts/on-vignas-pcg-critique.html https://www.pcg-random.org/posts/on-vignas-pcg-critique.html For example, for one of his arguments, he specifically chose a generator called pcg32_once_insecure, which the PCG author does not recommend due to its invertible output function! Personally, I have read both arguments in detail and I would always use PCG or even a truncated LCG over xoshiro, which has a large size in comparison, potentially worse statistical properties, and no gain- faster in some benchmarks and slower in others.