[Boost-users] [Random] Improved initialisation for mersenne_twister

From: Richard Jennings (Richard.Jennings_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-08-30 07:53:24

With Boost 1.33 the release notes say that there is improved
initialisation for mersenne_twister.  Does this mean that the
pseudo-random sequence from the same seed will be different with Boost
1.33 to Boost 1.32?

The reason I ask is that I use the random sequence to add noise to a
signal and check how my algorithm handles it.  As it's pseudo-random
noise I can expect the same result each time and test for that expected
result.  It appears that with Boost 1.33 the results are very subtly
different.  That's fine, but I want to be clear that it's due to a
change in the pseudo-random sequence (if it is) rather than some other
regression.

Richard