Re: Low hanging fruit - Accelerated random distribution functions

[John W. Eaton]

On 23-Feb-2007, David Bateman wrote:

| rande, randg and randp do call the old generators with "seed". However,
| that is not enough as the these patch (I give the credit to Paul for the
| hint in the randg help text) remove the inverse mapping that was
| previously used for a different expression of the random deviate.. I
| don't think its possible to have both the speedup and the old sequence..

OK, so we would have to write something like

  if (using_old_rand_generator ())
    original
  else
    new code
  endif

(assuming we had the function using_old_rand_generator).

I don't know that it is worth it, so I'd say just check in the change
and we'll see if anyone notices or complains.

jwe