Useful. One thing to keep in mind: there’s been a bit of a feud in the PRNG space between the Vigna camp [1] with xoroshiro and newcomer O’Neill [2] with PCG.

Useful. One thing to keep in mind: there’s been a bit of a feud in the PRNG space between the Vigna camp [1] with xoroshiro and newcomer O’Neill [2] with PCG. This website seems stay on the traditional side and shy away from recommending PCG. I’m not really qualified to judge on that dispute [3], but I think both options are better, smaller, faster than the good old Mersenne Twister, so it’s time that we moved on from that [4] and pick one of the latest generation PRNGs. FWIW, Julia now uses xoshiro256++ by default [5], and they investigated their choice quite thoroughly, I believe. [1] https://prng.di.unimi.it/ https://prng.di.unimi.it/ [2] https://www.pcg-random.org/ https://www.pcg-random.org/ [3] https://pcg.di.unimi.it/pcg.php https://pcg.di.unimi.it/pcg.php And the reply https://www.pcg-random.org/posts/on-vignas-pcg-critique.html https://www.pcg-random.org/posts/on-vignas-pcg-critique.html [4] https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.06437 https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.06437 [5] https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/stdlib/Random/ https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/stdlib/Random/