[Haskell-cafe] Announce: mersenne-random 0.1, very fast pseudo-random number generation for Haskell

[Don Stewart]

gale:
> Don Stewart wrote:
> > I'm pleased to announce the creation of the mersenne-random package,
> 
> Excellent! We were just discussing that.
> 
> > ...the implementation we bind to is heavily
> > impure, so only a single generator is possible per-process (splitting
> > generators is also not supported)...
> > Note that the cpu isn't detected automatically, so to turn on SIMD flags
> > for your cpu, you'll need to build it by hand
> 
> These are critical pieces of information. The only place I see them
> is in this email. Perhaps you should add them to the description on
> the Hackage page? Or at least to the README?

It is mentioned in the readme, and the cabal file.

> 
> > Some light abstractions are implemented over the raw C interface, including
> > a type class for SFMT-generated Haskell values, and lists of those values.
> 
> Haddocks for this?

It is fully haddocked, with examples. I'm waiting on hackage.haskell.org
to regenerate the docs. Until then, docs are here:

    http://code.haskell.org/~dons/docs/mersenne-random/

-- Don