From: Caleb Clausen <vikkous@...>
Date: 2006-08-10T12:14:55+09:00
Subject: Re: Been there, done that - language shootout

On 8/9/06, Isaac Gouy <igouy@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 2) It's very straightforward - if we use Ruby rand instead of
> implementing that random number generator we won't get the correct
> output.

I have to question your testing strategy, then. I have not looked
closely at your benchmarks... but if you have to have a benchmark
which uses random numbers (say, Monte Carlo integration), then you
shouldn't require an exact result. Can't you verify that it is close
enough to the expected result?