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Re: [Help-gsl] How many RNG instances?
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Brian Gough |
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Re: [Help-gsl] How many RNG instances? |
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Sun, 09 Jul 2006 19:21:37 +0100 |
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At Thu, 6 Jul 2006 11:55:40 +0200,
Joe wrote:
> I have a simple question. Do I need a seperate random number generator
> instance for each distribution I use? E.g, I have two different simulation
> parameters, one exponential, the other poisson distributed.
> Basically, right now, my RNG is wrapped within a singleton class meaning
> that I have only one instance, systemwide. Is this a good approach?
Yes, one global generator is fine for a single threaded program.
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Brian Gough
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