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Haskell High Performance Programming
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Haskell High Performance Programming

by Samuli Thomasson
September 2016
Intermediate to advanced
408 pages
9h 18m
English
Packt Publishing
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Random number generators

The libraries in this subsection are as follows:

  • MonadRandom: Simple monadic interface for supplying random numbers. Uses System.Random. It's rather slow and not very secure.
  • mwc-random: Very fast pseudo-random number generation. Probably not cryptographically secure.
  • random-fu: Good support for sampling a wide range of different distributions. Good quality but not terribly slow either.
  • mersenne-random: Pseudo-random numbers using a Mersenne Twister. Probably fastest RNG for Haskell when SIMD is supported.

Random numbers have multiple applications, from simulations to cryptography. Random number generators come with different trade-offs that suit different applications. Others are very fast and not really that random, while ...

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