Re: Saving and reading rng state from (ascii) file?

[Marcus G. Daniels]

>>>>> "JK" == Jan Kreft <address@hidden> writes:

JK> I'm trying to regularly save the state of the default MT19937 rng
JK> into a file, to be able to restart a run where it broke off due to
JK> power cut etc.

The generators should be extended with
-{lisp,hdf5}{In,Out{Deep,Shallow}} methods so that loading and saving
can be done in the same way as other objects.  One problem with the
way it is now is that the state structure is private and specific to
the generator.  However, you can load and save the date in untyped
binary format using C functions like fread or fwrite.  The size can be
acquired from getStateSize.


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