- Adds the `Sample` and `IndependentSample` traits for generating numbers where there are parameters (e.g. a list of elements to draw from, or the mean/variance of a normal distribution). The former takes `&mut self` and the latter takes `&self` (this is the only difference).
- Adds proper `Normal` and `Exp`-onential distributions
- Adds `Range` which generates `[lo, hi)` generically & properly (via a new trait) replacing the incorrect behaviour of `Rng.gen_integer_range` (this has become `Rng.gen_range` for convenience, it's far more efficient to use `Range` itself)
- Move the `Weighted` struct from `std::rand` to `std::rand::distributions` & improve it
- optimisations and docs
- Use ["nothing up my sleeve numbers"](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing_up_my_sleeve_number) for the ISAAC tests.
- Replace the default implementation of `Rng.fill_bytes` with something that doesn't try to do bad things with `transmute` and vectors just for the sake of a little speed.
- Replace the transmutes used to seed the ISAAC RNGs with calls into `vec::raw`.
r? @brson api::install_pkg now accepts an argument that's a list of
(kind, path) dependency pairs. This allows custom package scripts to
declare C dependencies, as is demonstrated in
rustpkg::tests::test_c_dependency_ok.
Closes#6403
api::install_pkg now accepts an argument that's a list of
(kind, path) dependency pairs. This allows custom package scripts to
declare C dependencies, as is demonstrated in
rustpkg::tests::test_c_dependency_ok.
Closes#6403
Slice transmutes are now (and, really, always were) dangerous, so we
avoid them and do the (only?) non-(undefined behaviour in C) pointer
cast: casting to *u8.
I'm planning on doing more updates, but the section in the tutorial stood out at me since the 'rust' tool no longer exists, this should probably be removed to lessen confusion.
This reifies the computations required for uniformity done by
(the old) `Rng.gen_integer_range` (now Rng.gen_range), so that they can
be amortised over many invocations, if it is called in a loop.
Also, it makes it correct, but using a trait + impls for each type,
rather than trying to coerce `Int` + `u64` to do the right thing. This
also makes it more extensible, e.g. big integers could & should
implement SampleRange.
Complete the implementation of Exp and Normal started by Exp1 and
StandardNormal by creating types implementing Sample & IndependentSample
with the appropriate parameters.
OS X 10.9's linker has a bug that results in it failing to preserve
DWARF unwind information when passed the -no_compact_unwind flag.
This flag is passed on OS X because the unwind information for
__morestack cannot be represented by the compact unwind format.
We can work around this problem by using a more targeted approach
to disabling compact unwind information. The OS X linker looks for
a particular pattern in the DWARF unwind information and will not
attempt to convert the unwind information to the compact format.
The pattern in question is the return address register being saved
twice to the same location.
Fixes#6849.
I'll flip this on after doing a snapshot. This syntax may or may not
stay around, and managed boxes are currently not very useful. They have
the same overall performance characteristics as `std::rc::Rc`, but are
significantly slower, allocate larger boxes and hold onto the memory
beyond when it is needed due to lacking move semantics.
There are currently two useful aspects of the type:
* the dereference sugar, which we should implement for `Rc`
* the annihilator freeing cycles at the end of the task
I'll flip this on after doing a snapshot. This syntax may or may not
stay around, and managed boxes are currently not very useful. They have
the same overall performance characteristics as `std::rc::Rc`, but are
significantly slower, allocate larger boxes and hold onto the memory
beyond when it is needed due to lacking move semantics.
There are currently two useful aspects of the type:
* the dereference sugar, which we should implement for `Rc`
* the annihilator freeing cycles at the end of the task
Drop the `2` suffix on all of them, updating all code in the process of doing so. This is a completely automated change, and it's dependent on the snapshots going through.
