From: ts <decoux@...>
Date: 2004-05-22T00:52:32+09:00
Subject: Re: ISAAC Random Number Generator

>>>>> "P" == Paul Sanchez <paul@NOargelSPAMfraster.org> writes:

P> How does ISAAC hold up under Marsaglia's "Die-Hard" test suite?  I 
P> believe Ruby is currently providing an implementation of the Mersenne 
P> Twister, which has aced the Die-Hard tests and has a cycle length on the 
P> order of 10^600, so I don't see a compelling reason to go with something 
P> else in terms of the quality of the random numbers.

 ISAAC was designed to be cryptographic secure, this is not the case for
 Mersenne Twister, which is more appropriate for Monte Carlo.


Guy Decoux