Re: next question....

[Sven N. Thommesen]

At 12:04 PM 4/2/1998 -0500, you wrote:
>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

Sure does. You have a considerable amount of code poking to do from 961020
to 1.1! It is my fervent hope that the next release will fill out the base
libraries to the point where further big tweaks to user apps won't be
necessary for later releases ... Stability Is Good ! 

Sven


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