Re: [boost] Get/set state in Mersenne Twister

On Sep 1, 2004, at 9:54 PM, Neal D. Becker wrote:

In order to serialize, it would be helpful to add an interface to mersenne_twister to get/set the state. I don't think there is any I/F to get the state.

When we need to serialize RNGs we currently use the possibility to convert the state to a string using operator <<(std::ostream&, const RNG&) and operator >>(std::istream&, RNG&). A better serialization mechanism should, in my opinion directly use the serialization library and not go over some get_state/set_state functions, since the state might be described by more than just a container. Matthias