I have written a new class for small random integers and made some slight modifications to the mersenne twister generator that allow me to generate random numbers approximately 2-4 times faster than the current small integer distribution. Would there be interest in these modifications? I have made some attempt to make the code conform to boost standards, but in reality the new class won't work on any compiler that doesn't have robust support for static constant integers. Thanks, -- A word is nothing more or less than the series of historical connotations given to it. That's HOW we derive meaning, and to claim that there is an arbitrary meaning of words above and beyond the way people use them is a blatant misunderstanding of the nature of language. -- Anonymous blogger -- Eric Hopper (hopper@omnifarious.org http://www.omnifarious.org/~hopper)--