Comparison With Other PRNGs
If higher quality random numbers are needed, and sufficient memory is available (~ 2 kilobytes), then the Mersenne twister algorithm provides a vastly longer period (219937 − 1) and variate uniformity. The Mersenne twister generates higher-quality deviates than almost any LCG. A common Mersenne twister implementation, interestingly enough, uses an LCG to generate seed data.
A Linear Feedback Shift Register PRNG can be implemented with essentially the same amount of memory and produces a stream of pseudorandom numbers with better randomness qualities when considering streams of bits, albeit with a bit more computation.
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