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 / Copyright (c) 2009 Steven Watanabe
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 / Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0. (See
 / accompanying file LICENSE_1_0.txt or copy at
 / http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt)
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For some people, performance of random number generation is an important
consideration when choosing a random number generator or a particular
distribution function. This page provides numerous performance tests with
the wide variety of generators and distributions available in the boost
library.

The performance has been evaluated on an Intel(R) Xeon(TM) MP
CPU 3.66GHz, Gentoo Base System release 1.12.11.1, GCC 4.3.2,
glibc 2.9 and on an Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU T7600
@2.33 Ghz with Microsoft Windows XP Professional, Service Pack 2 Build
2600, Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 9.0.21022.
The speed is reported in million random numbers
per second (M rn/sec), generated in a tight loop.

[include generator_performance_linux.qbk]
[include generator_performance_windows.qbk]

Note that the lagged Fibonacci and ranlux_01 generators produce
floating-point numbers, whereas all others produce integers.

[include distribution_performance_linux.qbk]
[include distribution_performance_windows.qbk]