logos001

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   by logos001 5y ago

   If performance is not as critical, I would probably pick AES or Chacha any day over those. Furthermore they make parallelizable reproducible streams trivial.
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   by logos001 5y ago

   Yes the usual war between xoroshiro and pcg haters/lovers. You could also take the opposite takeaway: don't use any of those, stay on the Mersenne-Twister (the modern variants are very reasonable).
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   by logos001 5y ago

   This is an interesting paper, but it has been posted to hacker news in 2020 already: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25166095 I had written about it around that time on my blog, for the curious: https://chas
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   by logos001 5y ago

   I suppose the question is do you really need to get rid of the Mersenne-Twister? Most of the modern variants are good enough for most practical purposes. https://chasethedevil.github.io/post/war-of-the-random-numbe...