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Document dependency between streams in PCG #195

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vigna opened this issue Mar 2, 2020 · 1 comment
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Document dependency between streams in PCG #195

vigna opened this issue Mar 2, 2020 · 1 comment

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@vigna
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vigna commented Mar 2, 2020

PCG streams obtained by modifying the increment constant are not independent. The topic has been discussed at length for the Rust implementation:

rust-random/rand#907

This should be something the user is made aware of, as having a parameter and talking about "streams" in the documentation gives the idea that the streams are somehow independent.

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@vigna I have substantially weakened the language and removed references to "independent" pretty much everywhere, using distinct in place. Thanks for the feedback.

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