I did a port of the Mersienne Twister (C-language edition) by Takuji Nishimura and Makoto Matsumoto into D. It is a free function version and doesn't use any classes. It also has a template for ranged random numbers.

  eg..
     uint v =  genrand_range!(uint)(1, 10));
     double f =  genrand_range!(double)(-0.5, 0.5))

It can be found at

  http://www.users.bigpond.com/ddparnell/mt.d

To get the object file only, compile with

   dmd -c mt

to get a stand alone self-test version compile with

   dmd -version=main mt

-- 
Derek Parnell
Melbourne, Australia

Derek Parnell wrote:
> 
> I did a port of the Mersienne Twister (C-language edition) by Takuji  Nishimura and Makoto Matsumoto into D. It is a free function version and  doesn't use any classes. It also has a template for ranged random numbers.
> 
>   eg..
>      uint v =  genrand_range!(uint)(1, 10));
>      double f =  genrand_range!(double)(-0.5, 0.5))
> 
> It can be found at
> 
>   http://www.users.bigpond.com/ddparnell/mt.d
> 
> To get the object file only, compile with
> 
>    dmd -c mt
> 
> to get a stand alone self-test version compile with
> 
>    dmd -version=main mt
> 

Did you get this from Torus Trooper?  If not then that's highly coincidental.

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James Dunne

Derek Parnell wrote:
> 
> I did a port of the Mersienne Twister (C-language edition) by Takuji  Nishimura and Makoto Matsumoto into D. It is a free function version and  doesn't use any classes. It also has a template for ranged random numbers.
> 
>   eg..
>      uint v =  genrand_range!(uint)(1, 10));
>      double f =  genrand_range!(double)(-0.5, 0.5))
> 
> It can be found at
> 
>   http://www.users.bigpond.com/ddparnell/mt.d
> 
> To get the object file only, compile with
> 
>    dmd -c mt
> 
> to get a stand alone self-test version compile with
> 
>    dmd -version=main mt
> 

Hey... I've already implement it in 'helix' on dsource. It is in svn. I'll test your implementation on weekend to see which is faster :)

-- 
Victor (aka nail) Nakoryakov
nail-mail<at>mail<dot>ru

Krasnoznamensk, Moscow, Russia

On Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:38:42 +1000, James Dunne <james.jdunne@gmail.com> wrote:

> Derek Parnell wrote:
>>  I did a port of the Mersienne Twister (C-language edition) by Takuji  Nishimura and Makoto Matsumoto into D. It is a free function version and  doesn't use any classes. It also has a template for ranged random numbers.
>>    eg..
>>      uint v =  genrand_range!(uint)(1, 10));
>>      double f =  genrand_range!(double)(-0.5, 0.5))
>>  It can be found at
>>    http://www.users.bigpond.com/ddparnell/mt.d
>>  To get the object file only, compile with
>>     dmd -c mt
>>  to get a stand alone self-test version compile with
>>     dmd -version=main mt
>>
>
> Did you get this from Torus Trooper?  If not then that's highly coincidental.
>

I got it from Makoto's RNG site ...

   http://www.math.sci.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/~m-mat/MT/MT2002/emt19937ar.html

-- 
Derek Parnell
Melbourne, Australia

On Fri, 14 Apr 2006 01:43:04 +1000, Victor Nakoryakov <nail-mail@mail.ru> wrote:

> Derek Parnell wrote:
>>  I did a port of the Mersienne Twister (C-language edition) by Takuji  Nishimura and Makoto Matsumoto into D. It is a free function version and  doesn't use any classes. It also has a template for ranged random numbers.
>>    eg..
>>      uint v =  genrand_range!(uint)(1, 10));
>>      double f =  genrand_range!(double)(-0.5, 0.5))
>>  It can be found at
>>    http://www.users.bigpond.com/ddparnell/mt.d
>>  To get the object file only, compile with
>>     dmd -c mt
>>  to get a stand alone self-test version compile with
>>     dmd -version=main mt
>>
>
> Hey... I've already implement it in 'helix' on dsource. It is in svn. I'll test your implementation on weekend to see which is faster :)

Knock yourself out ;-)  I haven't bothered tuning it, just made it more D-like.


-- 
Derek Parnell
Melbourne, Australia

Derek Parnell wrote:
> 
> I did a port of the Mersienne Twister (C-language edition) by Takuji Nishimura and Makoto Matsumoto into D. It is a free function version and doesn't use any classes. It also has a template for ranged random numbers.
> 
>   eg..
>      uint v =  genrand_range!(uint)(1, 10));
>      double f =  genrand_range!(double)(-0.5, 0.5))
> 
> It can be found at
> 
>   http://www.users.bigpond.com/ddparnell/mt.d
> 
> To get the object file only, compile with
> 
>    dmd -c mt
> 
> to get a stand alone self-test version compile with
> 
>    dmd -version=main mt
> 
> --Derek Parnell
> Melbourne, Australia

Attached is my D port of MT19937. I sent it to Walter last April as a proposed replacement for std.random.