> We chose taus88 mainly because it is the fastest from boost’s generators.
That's an RNG from 1996. It seems neither recent C++ standards, nor boost, know anything about the modern PRNGs that are much faster yet better at passing test suites
EDIT: Ok the above quote was from 2014, and boost seems to know some now! <a href="https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/latest/doc/html/boost_random/reference.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/latest/doc/html/boost_random/...
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That's an RNG from 1996. It seems neither recent C++ standards, nor boost, know anything about the modern PRNGs that are much faster yet better at passing test suites
EDIT: Ok the above quote was from 2014, and boost seems to know some now! <a href="https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/latest/doc/html/boost_random/reference.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/latest/doc/html/boost_random/...