Subject: [Boost-commit] svn:boost r72827 - website/public_html/beta/feed/history
From: steven_at_[hidden]
Date: 2011-06-30 18:54:24
Author: steven_watanabe
Date: 2011-06-30 18:54:24 EDT (Thu, 30 Jun 2011)
New Revision: 72827
URL: http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/changeset/72827
Log:
Release notes for random
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-[article Version 1.47.0
+[article Version 1.47.0
[quickbook 1.5]
[source-mode c++]
[purpose
@@ -183,6 +183,103 @@
* Better integration of `proto::basic_expr` to avoid accidental needless
instantiations of `proto::expr`.
+* [phrase library..[@/libs/random/index.html Random]:]
+ * Synchronized with the new standard.
+ * Many new distributions added:
+ `chi_squared_distribution`, `negative_binomial_distribution`,
+ `fisher_f_distribution`, `student_t_distribution`,
+ `weibull_distribution`, `extreme_value_distribution`,
+ `discrete_distribution`, `piecewise_constant_distribution`,
+ `piecewise_liear_distribution`
+ * Renamed `uniform_int` and `uniform_real` to
+ `uniform_int_distribution` and `uniform_real_distribution`.
+ * Added members to all distributions:
+ `param_type`, `param`, stream operators,
+ comparison operators, `min` and `max`.
+ * Allow distributions to be used directly with
+ generators without use of `variate_generator`.
+ * Changed the meaning of the parameters of
+ `geometric_distribution` and `lognormal_distribution`.
+ * Added a second parameter to `gamma_distribution`.
+ * Added `seed_seq` and added the corresponding
+ constructors and `seed` overloads the generators.
+ * Added `generate_canonical`.
+ * Renamed the engine tempates. e.g. `mersenne_twister`
+ becomes `mersenne_twister_engine`.
+ * New engine adapter `independent_bits_engine`.
+ * Added new predefined engine typedefs:
+ `mt19937_64`, `ranlux[24|48][_base]`, `knuth_b`.
+ * Updated seeding algorithms.
+ * Added `discard`
+ * Use unsigned types instead of signed types in all
+ the predefined engines.
+ * Bug fixes:
+ * `linear_congruential_engine` could assert because
+ the modular arithmetic was not implemented in all
+ cases. `shuffle_output`, now called `shuffle_order_engine`,
+ could cause integer overflow. These cases were
+ not triggered by any predefined engines.
+ * `uniform_small_int` now actually behaves as documented.
+ * New efficient algorithms for `binomial_distribution`
+ and `poisson_distribution`.
+ * Moved all features into `namespace boost::random`
+ * Backwards compatibility issues:
+ * The seeding algorithms have changed.
+ This was unavoidable for compatibility
+ with the standard. Not to mention
+ that some of the existing algorithms
+ were weird and inconsistent.
+ * Seeding with an integer:
+ The behaviour should be unchanged for
+ most generators except `lagged_fibonacci` and
+ `subtract_with_carry` (and thus `ranlux`).
+ * Seeding a generator with another generator:
+ This has been enabled by making all
+ all generators models of `SeedSeq`. Therefore,
+ if you seed a Boost.Random generator with
+ a non Boost.Random generator, your code
+ will no longer compile. The algorithm
+ has changed, so code using this seeding
+ method will yield different values.
+ * Seeding a generator from a pair of iterators:
+ This implicitly assumed that the elements
+ were 32-bit integers in some places, but
+ not everywhere. I've added this requirement
+ everywhere and updated the algorithms
+ accordingly. The behaviour of generators
+ with a `value_type` no more than 32 bits should
+ be unchanged.
+ * Renaming:
+ * Whenever a class was renamed, there is a wrapper
+ with the old name. There are also using declarations
+ in namespace boost for everything that was moved.
+ * The names of a few accessors in the distributions
+ changed. Both the old and the new names are allowed.
+ * `geometric_distribution` and `lognormal_distribution`:
+ The behaviour is different at runtime.
+ `boost::geometric_distribution` and `boost::lognormal_distribution`
+ provide the old behaviour, `boost::random::geometric_distribution`
+ and `boost::random::lognormal_distribution` provide
+ the new behaviour.
+ * Streaming:
+ gamma_distribution has a new parameter, thus
+ text saved with the old version will not readable
+ by the new version.
+ * `variate_generator` is now a simple pass through wrapper.
+ Code that assumes that it will adjust the generator's
+ result type to match the distribution will no longer
+ work. This is not an issue with any of the distributions
+ provided by Boost.Random.
+ * Return types:
+ The `result_types` of some generators have changed
+ slightly. Some signed types have changed to unsigned
+ to match the standard.
+ * `has_fixed_range`:
+ This is now always false, as it doesn't appear to be very
+ useful and is excessively cumbersome. Anything that
+ was accessing `const_min` and `const_max` without first
+ checking `has_fixed_range` was incorrect to begin with.
+
* [phrase library..[@/libs/range/index.html Range]:]
* Fixed the end position `irange` when step size is greater than 1
([@https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/5544 #5544]).