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Subject: Re: [boost] [config] std::shuffle support
From: Peter Dimov (lists_at_[hidden])
Date: 2016-11-07 07:28:37


Andrey Semashev wrote:

> FWIW, in Boost.Log I'm using my local random_shuffle[1] regardless of the
> standard library version. Maybe that would be a better solution than
> conditioning your code on config macros.
>
> [1]: https://github.com/boostorg/log/blob/develop/src/core.cpp#L60

The standard random_shuffle doesn't use rng() % n though, it uses rng(n).
rng() % n is non-uniform in general.


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