Specific Problems with Other RNGs (pcg-random.org)
recommended by 1 user | 2015 | 36 points by nkurz | algorithms & theory | original thread |
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i336_ Nov 18, 2015 | on: PCG: Simple Fast Space-Efficient Good Algorithms for Random… | context

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This was posted 6 days ago; insightful discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10544943

The TL;DR seems to be "mathematically 50/50 chance that PCG is better than others, but for certain cases it might be superior."

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