[issue30880] PCG random number generator

[Tim Peters]

Tim Peters added the comment:

I agree closing was appropriate at this time.  I quite like PCG, but as Raymond said it's more a template for creating PRNGs than a specific generator.  So even if a compelling case could be made, there's still a long way to having specific code in mind.

In the Python world, the only non-trivial (i.e., not just a pure-Python toy demo program) PCG work I'm aware of is Robert Kern's (numpy's PRNG specialist) experiment with wrapping it:

https://github.com/rkern/pcg-python

But it hasn't been touched since late 2015.  It's also a bit concerning that Prof. O'Neill hasn't posted to her PCG blog in over 2 years:

http://www.pcg-random.org/blog/

I'm not concerned that the paper still hasn't been published - papers can sit a loooong time in review queues, and I'm afraid her paper is far too down-to-earth, readable, entertaining, and long for the TOMS editors' tastes <0.3 wink>.

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