Is there some simple way to make use of C’s rand() from within Ruby?
The daughter of someone I know is writing some toy scripts to compare
PRNG results for a science fair project . . .
ara.t.howard wrote:
On Apr 10, 2008, at 10:20 AM, Chad P. wrote:
Is there some simple way to make use of C’s rand() from within Ruby?
The daughter of someone I know is writing some toy scripts to compare
PRNG results for a science fair project . . .you mean other than just using
rand
That would call ruby’s mersenne twister, AFAIK.
On Apr 10, 2008, at 10:20 AM, Chad P. wrote:
Is there some simple way to make use of C’s rand() from within Ruby?
The daughter of someone I know is writing some toy scripts to compare
PRNG results for a science fair project . . .
you mean other than just using
rand
??
you can directly call the C function using ruby/dl (see examples in
dist)
cheers.
On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 03:27:53AM +0900, ara.t.howard wrote:
??
Yes, other than that – since that uses Ruby’s PRNG, and not C’s.
you can directly call the C function using ruby/dl (see examples in
dist)
Thanks.
On Apr 10, 2008, at 12:32 PM, Joel VanderWerf wrote:
That would call ruby’s mersenne twister, AFAIK.
yeah - i just wasn’t clear on what was being asked - ruby/dl is the
ticket me thinks…
On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 03:32:09AM +0900, Joel VanderWerf wrote:
That would call ruby’s mersenne twister, AFAIK.
Indeed – which is why I was asking about C’s rand() function.