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diff --git a/dev-haskell/mersenne-random-pure64/metadata.xml b/dev-haskell/mersenne-random-pure64/metadata.xml new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..e88086f1e6c0 --- /dev/null +++ b/dev-haskell/mersenne-random-pure64/metadata.xml @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@ +<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> +<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd"> +<pkgmetadata> + <herd>haskell</herd> + <longdescription> + The Mersenne twister is a pseudorandom number generator developed by + Makoto Matsumoto and Takuji Nishimura that is based on a matrix linear + recurrence over a finite binary field. It provides for fast generation + of very high quality pseudorandom numbers. The source for the C code + can be found here: + + <http://www.math.sci.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/~m-mat/MT/emt64.html> + + This library provides a purely functional binding to the 64 bit + classic mersenne twister, along with instances of RandomGen, so the + generator can be used with System.Random. The generator should + typically be a few times faster than the default StdGen (but a tad + slower than the impure 'mersenne-random' library based on SIMD + instructions and destructive state updates. + + </longdescription> +</pkgmetadata> |