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It seems the convention in Julia is to pass the random number generator as first argument, see e.g. the documentation of
rand
,rand!
, andrandn!
. I changed the definitions ofcount_rand
,ad_rand
, andpois_rand
accordingly.Moreover, when I updated the README I realized that not only the benchmarks do not consider some already existing implementations of the algorithms in this package in Distributions but also compare the performance of different random number generators -
n_dist
uses Rmath's internal random number generator whereas the other functions (n_count
,n_ad
, andn_pois
) userng = Xorshifts.Xoroshiro128Plus()
. I'm not sure whether this could explain the differences seen in the benchmarks but at least it does not seem to be completely fair.