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It is high time we let go of the Mersenne Twister — HN submission

Tue, 28 Oct 2025 16:33:04 GMT

It is high time we let go of the Mersenne Twister (2019)

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It is high time we let go of the Mersenne Twister — HN submission

Tue, 01 Jul 2025 20:08:00 GMT

It is high time we let go of the Mersenne Twister

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It is high time we let go of the Mersenne Twister — mentioned by ReleaseCandidat

Sun, 26 May 2024 08:08:11 GMT

This needs "It is high time we let go of the Mersenne Twister" https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.06437 This paper surveys these results for the non-specialist, providing new, simple, understandable examples, and it is intended as a guide for the final user, or for language implementors, so that they can take an informed decision about whether to use the Mersenne Twister or not.

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It is high time we let go of the Mersenne Twister — mentioned by FabHK

Wed, 31 May 2023 03:17:18 GMT

Useful. One thing to keep in mind: there’s been a bit of a feud in the PRNG space between the Vigna camp [1] with xoroshiro and newcomer O’Neill [2] with PCG. This website seems stay on the traditional side and shy away from recommending PCG. I’m not really qualified to judge on that dispute [3], but I think both options are better, smaller, faster than the good old Mersenne Twister, so it’s time that we moved on from that [4] and pick one of the latest generation PRNGs. FWIW, Julia now uses xoshiro256++ by default [5], and they investigated their choice quite thoroughly, I believe. [1]…

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It is high time we let go of the Mersenne Twister — HN submission

Wed, 09 Mar 2022 07:06:34 GMT

It is high time we let go of the Mersenne Twister (2019)

99 points; 52 discussion replies on HN. Paper and source history. A submission is not an endorsement.

It is high time we let go of the Mersenne Twister — HN submission

Fri, 20 Nov 2020 22:56:17 GMT

It is high time we let go of the Mersenne Twister (2019)

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It is high time we let go of the Mersenne Twister — mentioned by rurban

Fri, 16 Oct 2020 11:15:09 GMT

It is very bad. It's is huge, 10x slower than good LCG's, and fails statistical tests, esp. it's lower bits, most wellknown by the Ferrenberg affair. https://arxiv.org/pdf/1910.06437.pdf PCG is also not that good. There do exist proper and fast PRNG's though. DSFMT has the same problems as MT. I'm just adding some of them to gsl and dieharder btw.

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It is high time we let go of the Mersenne Twister — HN submission

Sat, 30 Nov 2019 10:14:14 GMT

It Is High Time We Let Go of the Mersenne Twister

4 points; 0 discussion replies on HN. Paper and source history. A submission is not an endorsement.

It is high time we let go of the Mersenne Twister — HN submission

Wed, 16 Oct 2019 14:33:38 GMT

It is high time we let go of the Mersenne Twister

1 point; 0 discussion replies on HN. Paper and source history. A submission is not an endorsement.