Re: next question....

[Ginger Booth]

Sven,

> I hate to ask, but is there some specific reason (beyond "if it ain't
> broke, don't fix it") that you are not using the random generators that
> come with Swarm? If there's something that the current objects do, or don't
> do, that you are not happy with, please let me know so I can consider it
> for the next revision of Random.

No offense intended, my friend!  Gecko's use of randoms for Gaussian
deviates (I love that term ;) far predates any availability in Swarm. Now
I'm porting from last-beta Swarm to 1.1 on WinNT.  There is no binary
release of Swarm 1.1 or 1.05 available on HPUX these days.  Ideally, in
this port, one would like to:

        1. Verify *identical* experimental results on a batch job.
        2. Then polish the gui gotchas.
        3. Then go forward with housecleaning like random noveau.

In other words, the lrand48 inavailability really sucks, for I cannot 
verify equivalence by match-exactly.

Since I assume the random library will work when I get around to altering
code all over Gecko to include it, that's last step.  In the meantime,
I'm wallpapering over the problem with rand() and srand() and doing the
infrastructure port. Make sense?

Cheers,
        Ginger

                  ==================================
   Swarm-Support is for discussion of the technical details of the day
   to day usage of Swarm.  For list administration needs (esp.
   [un]subscribing), please send a message to <address@hidden>
   with "help" in the body of the message.
                  ==================================