1[/ 2 / Copyright (c) 2009 Steven Watanabe 3 / 4 / Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0. (See 5 / accompanying file LICENSE_1_0.txt or copy at 6 / http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt) 7] 8 9For some people, performance of random number generation is an important 10consideration when choosing a random number generator or a particular 11distribution function. This page provides numerous performance tests with 12the wide variety of generators and distributions available in the boost 13library. 14 15The performance has been evaluated on an Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 16CPU Q 840 @ 1.87GHz, 1867 Mhz with Visual C++ 2010, Microsoft 17Windows 7 Professional and with gcc 4.4.5, Ubuntu Linux 2.6.35-25-generic. 18The speed is reported in million random numbers 19per second (M rn/sec), generated in a tight loop. 20 21[include generator_performance_linux.qbk] 22[include generator_performance_windows.qbk] 23 24Note that the lagged Fibonacci and ranlux_01 generators produce 25floating-point numbers, whereas all others produce integers. 26 27[include distribution_performance_linux.qbk] 28[include distribution_performance_windows.qbk] 29