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- I'm really curious... How did you manage to post this link before I did?by AlanZucconi
- Ah yes, Xorshift, the RANDU [1] of the 21st century [2].
There is no real use case for better non-CS generators, as explained by adrian_b back in 2021 [3].
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RANDU [2] https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.10020 [3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28886698
by saithound - by YZF
- I’ve replaced Lua’s random by this. I’ve posted about it here https://nullonerror.org/2025/08/02/replacing-lua-s-math-rand...by mococa
- A number of years ago I implemented xoshiro256** for the GFortran compiler. Previously it used Marsaglia's KISS generator, which wasn't bad but perhaps no longer state of the art on the TESTU1 etc. tests. Additionally, xoshiro256** can be used in parallel by multiple threads; that took a bit of clever hacking to work around the limitations of the Fortran intrinsics API.by jabl
- Xorshift-36 for the PDP-10, with help from Sebastiano Vigna.