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On 08/06/15 19:33, Laura Creighton wrote:

> Better C random number generator.
> http://www.pcg-random.org/download.html

Or for something less minimalistic, just grab randomkit.c and 
randomkit.h from NumPy, which implements the same Mersenne Twister as 
Python. That is what I usually do to get fast random numbers from Cython

https://github.com/numpy/numpy/tree/master/numpy/random/mtrand


Sturla