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[Brian Gough]

Piero Foscari writes:
 > One thing isnt too clear, going for speed and Box-Muller is slowed down to 
 > stay reentrant... is then reentrance really a requirement along the whole 
 > project? I mean, other generators keep a state or even a whole set of 
 > values saved, why not do the same in this case?

There's a distinction between the functions in gsl_randist (variates
from distributions) and gsl_rng (generators).  The functions for
producing non-uniform variates don't maintain any state, since it
would tend to make them very complicated.

-- 
Brian Gough

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