top | item 10652055 Testing Math.random(): Crushing the browser 36 points| jandem | 10 years ago |jandemooij.nl | reply 2 comments order hn newest [+] [-] jacobolus|10 years ago|reply What research went into choosing XorShift128+? (Paper is apparently http://arxiv.org/pdf/1404.0390.pdf, which makes it seem like this still has quite a few failures on randomness tests.) Were any PRNG experts consulted? Did these folks consider http://www.pcg-random.org ? This talk was great http://www.pcg-random.org/posts/stanford-colloquium-talk.htm...HN discussions of PCG Random: 1) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9887548 2) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10544943 [+] [-] epmatsw|10 years ago|reply Nice writeup. Surprising it took someone so long to notice the issues in Chrome, since it appears to be so much worse than the others. [+] [-] unknown|10 years ago|reply [deleted]
[+] [-] jacobolus|10 years ago|reply What research went into choosing XorShift128+? (Paper is apparently http://arxiv.org/pdf/1404.0390.pdf, which makes it seem like this still has quite a few failures on randomness tests.) Were any PRNG experts consulted? Did these folks consider http://www.pcg-random.org ? This talk was great http://www.pcg-random.org/posts/stanford-colloquium-talk.htm...HN discussions of PCG Random: 1) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9887548 2) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10544943
[+] [-] epmatsw|10 years ago|reply Nice writeup. Surprising it took someone so long to notice the issues in Chrome, since it appears to be so much worse than the others.
[+] [-] jacobolus|10 years ago|reply
HN discussions of PCG Random: 1) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9887548 2) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10544943
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