<div dir="ltr">Hi,<div><br></div><div>Chiefly reproducibility - multiple implementations of the standard aren't. See <a href="http://jenkins.gromacs.org/job/Documentation_Nightly_master/javadoc/doxygen/html-full/group__module__random.xhtml" target="_blank">http://jenkins.gromacs.org/job/Documentation_Nightly_master/javadoc/doxygen/html-full/group__module__random.xhtml</a></div><div><br></div><div>Particularly for new code, we have some quite nice Doxygen documentation and machinery to build the latest version and make it available via <a href="http://manual.gromacs.org/documentation/">http://manual.gromacs.org/documentation/</a>. It would be good for us all to remember to think of that first, and ask each other questions that remain :-)</div><div><br></div><div>Mark</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 12:37 PM David van der Spoel <<a href="mailto:spoel@xray.bmc.uu.se" target="_blank">spoel@xray.bmc.uu.se</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi,<br>
<br>
just finding out that gmx_rng_t has been replaced by C++.<br>
Is there any reason to use the new gromacs code rather than the C++11<br>
built-in one for simple random numbers?<br>
<a href="http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/numeric/random/uniform_real_distribution" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/numeric/random/uniform_real_distribution</a><br>
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