Re: Using CLHEP pseudo-random number generators in ROOT ?

Hi Brett,

For sure, we are not going to introduce a dependency of ROOT on an obsolete package like CLHEP.
ROOT random number generators are better and faster than the ones in CLHEP.

Rene Brun

Brett Viren wrote:
> I'm sure this must have been asked, but my google-fu is lacking.
>
> In our Gaudi and Geant4 -based environment we mostly rely on CLHEP pRNG
> streams. However, ROOT is often used for things like drawing from
> distributions in THx's which, of course, use ROOT's pRNGs.
>
> Is there a way for ROOT to pull randoms from CLHEP or vice versa in
> order to gain a single, application-wide pRNG stream?
>
> Thanks,
> -Brett.
>
>
Received on Tue Nov 03 2009 - 17:02:13 CET