At 15:08 -0400 6/11/99, Jesse Welton wrote:
>...SNIP...
>Here's a question: If the algorithm were changed to use a modulus
>which fits into Squeak's 30-bit integers, would the resulting code run
>any faster than the float version, or still slower?

This would require redoing the extensive testing that makes the Park-Miller
generator worth using. Such testing is difficult, time consuming, and best
done by an expert.

It would probably make more sense to compute the value in a primitive and
use the C version of the code.

Dave
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