AMDG On 04/21/2014 02:28 PM, John Salmon wrote:
<snip> I would love to see a boost implementation that captured and exposed this capability for general use. Thus, I think a better approach is as follows:
- define a new "RandomFunction" concept that dscribes/enforces the essential, common features of the randomizing function in Threefry, Philox, ARS and other counter-based random generators.
I don't think this is a particularly useful abstraction. Most users should not care at all about this, since they should be using the predefined engine typedefs. If more similar generators are added later, then the implementation can be adjusted to factor out the common boilerplate, but I really don't see the point of creating a whole new concept for this. In Christ, Steven Watanabe