--- "Harvey J. Stein" wrote:
> For serious Monte Carlo you need a collection of random number
> generators. Sometimes you just want very good random numbers, where
> good is application specific, and sometimes you'll settle for less
> good because you need so many of them that you need to get them very
> quickly.
Well, I might be in the minority here, but I just don't see
speed as much of an issue. The general sluggishness of Maxima
almost immediately swamps out whatever speed is gained by
having an extra-fast rng. When the rng becomes the bottleneck,
I'm willing to revisit this problem.
The use of Maxima random will be more comprehensible if there is
only one to talk about, and it has properties that are predictable
across platforms. Maxima is not very consistent, and this is a
serious obstacle. Let's work toward comprehensibility first.
For what it's worth,
Robert Dodier
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