a few questions about discrete rng

[Brian Gough]

Rodney Sparapani writes:
 > > > It is alot easier to pass one parameter than 2 since you can easily
 > > > get them backwards.
 > >
 > >gsl's vectors use a stride, which adds unnecessary overhead to array
 > >based functions.
 > 
 > I don't understand this.  Would this tend to add overhead to linear algebra 
 > operations as well?  

In linear algebra the stride is already used by BLAS.