alea changelog

Changelog History

• v0.3.0 Changes

  ➕ Added

  • Single precision support for all methods.
  • Exception interface:
    • Alea::NoConvergeError
    • Alea::UndefinedError
    • Alea::InfinityError
    • Alea::NaNError
  • Spec interface with macros to simplify testing:
    • arg_test
    • sanity_test
    • param_test
    • dist_test
      
  • Alea::Random:
    • all standard sampling methods now accepts any-typed values.
    • Poisson distribution support.
  • Alea::XSR128, Alea::XSR256:
    • UInt32 generation capabilities.
    • new now accepts initial states (32/64 bits) as StaticArray.
    • new now accepts initial seeds (32/64 bits) as Int.
    • #jump_* methods to advance states.
  • Alea::CDF:
    • all cdf methods now accepts any-typed values.
    • Poisson distribution support.
    • ChiSquare distribution support.
    • Gamma distribution support.
  • Modules:
    • Alea::Core to store internal implementations.
    • Alea::Core::SpecFun to store special functions implementations.
    • Alea::Core::SpecFun::Gamma for special gamma functions.
  • Engines:
    • Alea::Core::SplitMix64(N) struct for state64 initializations.
    • Alea::Core::Mulberry32(N) struct for state32 initializations.

  🔄 Changed

  • Alea::Random is now a struct.
  • Renamed all occurences of chi_square into chisq.
  • Renamed all occurences of exponential into exp.
  • Renamed all occurences of mean into loc.
  • Renamed all occurences of freedom into df.
  • Renamed initstate into proper seed in Alea::Random.new.
  • Alea::CDF.chisq* have no more default df.
  • #next_u, #next_f are deprecated. Now they have bit-fixed names:
    • #next_u32 : UInt32
    • #next_u64 : UInt64
    • #next_f32 : Float32
    • #next_f64 : Float64
  • #jump in Alea::Random is deprecated. Use jump method directly from Alea::Random#prng instead.
  • Unparsed sampling methods (e.g.: #next_gamma) now have specific types for arguments.

  🛠 Fixed

  • A bug causing splitmix to generate bad values.

• v0.2.3 Changes

  ➕ Added

  • Alea::CDF module for Cumulative Distribution Function support.
  • Supported distributions:
    • Exponential
    • Laplace
    • Lognormal
    • Normal
    • Uniform

• v0.2.2 Changes

  ➕ Added

  • Uniform distribution support.
  • New methods that take an upper limit or a range as optional arguments:
    • Alea::Random#uint : UInt64
    • Alea::Random#float : Float64

• v0.2.1 Changes

  ➕ Added

  • Laplace distribution support.
  • Safe methods: now each sampling method has an alias for secure argument checks. The alias are obtained by omitting next_ from the regular ones.

• v0.2.0 Changes

  🔄 Changed

  • Deprecated C bindings due to the slowness of the calls to the static library.
  • Deprecated Random::PCG32 as the main PRNG of Alea::Random, now powered by the Alea::XSR128 engine by default.
  • Alea::Random no longer inherits the PRNG, instead it is passed to the constructor. This increases modularity and opens the doors to customizations.

  ➕ Added

  • Alea::XSR abstract class, inherit this to build your own PRNG to pass to Alea::Random.
  • Alea::XSR128 class, PRNG loaded with a state of 128 bits.
  • Alea::XSR256 class, PRNG loaded with a state of 256 bits.

• v0.1.1 Changes

  ➕ Added

  • C implementations of the xoshiro algorithms collection for UInt64 and Float64 sampling.

• v0.1.0 Changes

  • Initial release.
  • Supported distributions:
    • Normal
    • Exponential
    • Lognormal
    • Beta
    • Gamma
    • Chi Square