From octave-maintainers-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Tue Jan  6 09:33:56 2004
Subject: Re: benchmarks (rand)
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: David Bateman <David dot Bateman at motorola dot com>
Cc: Paul Kienzle <pkienzle at users dot sourceforge dot net>,    octave-maintainers@bevo.che.wisc.edu
Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2004 09:33:41 -0600

On  6-Jan-2004, David Bateman <David dot Bateman at motorola dot com> wrote:

| I don't think these tests will take octave-forge into account, so speed 
| increases in octave-forge won't show up in these tests. This is a good
| justification to get the randon generator code from octave-forge into 
| octave itself.

People will likely complain if we change the default generator since
it may change the results of some simulations.  So I think we either
need to keep the current generator as the default or at least keep it
as an alternative to support old code that needs to generate the same
set of numbers for reproducible results.

jwe