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Re: KISS4691, a potentially top-ranked RNG.

From Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid>
Newsgroups sci.math, comp.lang.c, comp.lang.fortran, comp.lang.pl1, comp.lang.ada
Subject Re: KISS4691, a potentially top-ranked RNG.
Date 2011-04-28 23:01 -0400
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
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On 4/28/2011 10:09 PM, Ian Collins wrote:
> On 04/29/11 01:50 PM, David Bernier wrote:
>> [...]
>> All we have now are George Marsaglia's posts and writings.
>> I know there's now a move on the way to 64-bit processors,
>> which I take to mean the x86_64 or AMD64 design/instruction set.
>
> The move happened several years ago (at least on the desktop and server).

     ... for suitable values of "several."  DEC's first Alpha CPU's
shipped in 1992, and are now old enough to vote.

>> In any case, with an executable compiled with a C compiler,
>> there's the function sizeof, which might be useful
>> in some cases at run time.
>
> Being pedantic, sizeof is a compile time operator when used with
> integral types.

     It's an operator, always.  It's evaluable at compile time for
any operand, integral or not, except a variable-length array (whose
element count is not determined until run time).

-- 
Eric Sosman
esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid

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Re: KISS4691, a potentially top-ranked RNG. "robin" <robin51@dodo.mapson.com.au> - 2011-04-28 11:14 +1000
  Re: KISS4691, a potentially top-ranked RNG. "e p chandler" <epc8@juno.com> - 2011-04-28 07:42 -0400
    Re: KISS4691, a potentially top-ranked RNG. Gib Bogle <g.bogle@auckland.ac.nz> - 2011-04-29 12:55 +1200
    Re: KISS4691, a potentially top-ranked RNG. David Bernier <david250@videotron.ca> - 2011-04-28 21:50 -0400
      Re: KISS4691, a potentially top-ranked RNG. Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2011-04-29 14:09 +1200
        Re: KISS4691, a potentially top-ranked RNG. Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2011-04-28 23:01 -0400
          Re: KISS4691, a potentially top-ranked RNG. Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2011-04-29 15:09 +1200
            Re: KISS4691, a potentially top-ranked RNG. Uno <merrilljensen@q.com> - 2011-05-08 00:34 -0700
              Re: KISS4691, a potentially top-ranked RNG. Marni Zollinger <marni@altgreendesigns.com> - 2011-05-10 23:38 -0600
          Re: KISS4691, a potentially top-ranked RNG. nmm1@cam.ac.uk - 2011-04-29 07:15 +0100
        Re: KISS4691, a potentially top-ranked RNG. David Bernier <david250@videotron.ca> - 2011-04-28 23:16 -0400
      Re: KISS4691, a potentially top-ranked RNG. glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2011-04-29 02:34 +0000
        Re: KISS4691, a potentially top-ranked RNG. Uno <Uno@example.invalid> - 2011-04-29 01:04 -0600
          Re: KISS4691, a potentially top-ranked RNG. "robin" <robin51@dodo.mapson.com.au> - 2011-04-30 20:48 +1000
            Re: KISS4691, a potentially top-ranked RNG. Uno <Uno@example.invalid> - 2011-05-04 19:12 -0600
        Re: KISS4691, a potentially top-ranked RNG. Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2011-04-29 08:13 -0700
          Re: KISS4691, a potentially top-ranked RNG. glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2011-04-29 17:41 +0000
            Re: KISS4691, a potentially top-ranked RNG. Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2011-04-29 12:53 -0700
              Re: KISS4691, a potentially top-ranked RNG. Michael Press <rubrum@pacbell.net> - 2011-05-05 16:38 -0700
          Re: KISS4691, a potentially top-ranked RNG. Seebs <usenet-nospam@seebs.net> - 2011-04-29 22:45 +0000
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    Re: KISS4691, a potentially top-ranked RNG. "robin" <robin51@dodo.mapson.com.au> - 2011-04-29 19:43 +1000
  Re: KISS4691, a potentially top-ranked RNG. Thad Smith <ThadSmith@acm.org> - 2011-05-01 08:31 -0700
    Re: KISS4691, a potentially top-ranked RNG. Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2011-05-02 07:58 +1200
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        Re: KISS4691, a potentially top-ranked RNG. Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2011-05-02 12:42 +1200
          Re: KISS4691, a potentially top-ranked RNG. James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2011-05-01 22:34 -0400
          Re: KISS4691, a potentially top-ranked RNG. glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2011-05-02 02:50 +0000
      Re: KISS4691, a potentially top-ranked RNG. Thad Smith <ThadSmith@acm.org> - 2011-05-01 21:21 -0700
        Re: KISS4691, a potentially top-ranked RNG. nmm1@cam.ac.uk - 2011-05-02 08:31 +0100
          Re: KISS4691, a potentially top-ranked RNG. "robin" <robin51@dodo.mapson.com.au> - 2011-05-23 16:52 +1000
          Re: KISS4691, a potentially top-ranked RNG. "robin" <robin51@dodo.mapson.com.au> - 2011-05-23 14:18 +1000
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          Re: KISS4691, a potentially top-ranked RNG. "robin" <robin51@dodo.mapson.com.au> - 2011-05-23 16:52 +1000
          Re: KISS4691, a potentially top-ranked RNG. "robin" <robin51@dodo.mapson.com.au> - 2011-05-23 16:53 +1000
            Re: KISS4691, a potentially top-ranked RNG. Georg Bauhaus <rm.dash-bauhaus@futureapps.de> - 2011-05-23 09:16 +0200
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              Re: KISS4691, a potentially top-ranked RNG. "robin" <robin51@dodo.mapson.com.au> - 2011-06-28 17:19 +1000
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