Hey Stephan, I have a quick poisson generator based on Ahrens and Dieter's PD algorithm. I've been too busy to formally submit it. If you want to take a look it's here: http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/416909/poisson_distribution.hpp If anyone knows how to submit this for review, please let me know. Ross Levine On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 5:04 AM, Paul A. Bristow <pbristow@hetp.u-net.com> wrote:
-----Original Message----- From: boost-bounces@lists.boost.org [mailto:boost-bounces@lists.boost.org] On Behalf Of Stephan Sent: 06 March 2009 10:26 To: boost@lists.boost.org Subject: [boost] [random] Speed up binomial and poisson distributions
Hi,
I was wondering why the binomial distribution still isn't optimized for speed. If I look into the GSL as a comparison, they use much smarter and faster algorithms. As is, the bosst::random distributions are not usable for computational purposes to me, which is a pity since I very much like the approach using variate_generators and stuff...
I would be happy to contribute some faster code, but I don't know how exactly I should proceed for that... should I contact the maintainer directly?
Yes - I think you should - and report back here if you fail - someone else may be willing to take on the task
- or help *you* to take it on ;-)
Paul
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