For what it's worth, I once struggled to implement random walks on custom hardware because its ISA lacked trig support and I couldn't generate N(0,1)s quickly e

For what it's worth, I once struggled to implement random walks on custom hardware because its ISA lacked trig support and I couldn't generate N(0,1)s quickly enough. For that application, tens of fp32 maccs to transform from uniform data was a non-starter.