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I'd like to call out this [RNG library](https://www.pcg-random.org/), which I use regularly. There is a [Fortran wrapper](https://github.com/DaanVanVugt/pcg32-fortran) to the version producing 32bit random values online but I think it's worth...

Just for reference here is libstdc++'s implementation of the gaussian variate generator, which is a very standard implementation of Marsaglia's algorithm with each call saving one of the two variates...

@David-Duffy you're absolutely right. It appears Ziggurat is the fastest option for gaussians, and doesn't seem to be worst statistically from what I've been reading. There's a [paper](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1810.04744.pdf) on a...

@certik Got it. Thank you for clarifying the situation for me, I wasn't aware.

Apologies if this isn't the right place, but as a broad comment, if I could make one wish to the ISO gods it would be to make it easier for...

How about this: There should be a string_array type. This type: * Would hold all the "string" elements of the array by storing them side by side in one contiguous...