From: Chad Perrin <perrin@...>
Date: 2008-04-11T04:00:47+09:00
Subject: Re: C rand() in Ruby

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On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 03:27:53AM +0900, ara.t.howard wrote:
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> On Apr 10, 2008, at 10:20 AM, Chad Perrin wrote:
> >Is there some simple way to make use of C's rand() from within Ruby?
> >The daughter of someone I know is writing some toy scripts to compare
> >PRNG results for a science fair project . . .
>=20
> you mean other than just using
>=20
>   rand
>=20
> ??

Yes, other than that -- since that uses Ruby's PRNG, and not C's.


>=20
> you *can* directly call the C function using ruby/dl (see examples in =20
> dist)

Thanks.

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