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

On Tuesday 03 November 2009 18:09:03 Brett Viren wrote:
> Rene Brun <Rene.Brun_at_cern.ch> writes:
> > 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.
>
> Okay. I didn't realize CLHEP was so marginalized. I'll have to look in
> to what this means vis a vis Geant4 and Gaudi.

CLHEP being "passé" or not is still to be discussed (probably not on this mailing list) but is also moot.

if tomorrow I have my super duper C-library which provides a blazingly fast pRNG stream in a form of uint64_t* (or whatever), there'd surely be a way to tell the ROOT framework to use that as a source, without hopping thru too much glue code, wouldn't it ?

my 2-euro cents.

cheers,
sebastien.

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