What research went into choosing XorShift128+? (Paper is apparently
http://arxiv.org/pdf/1404.0390.pdf, which makes it seem like this still has quite a few failures on randomness tests.) Were any PRNG experts consulted? Did these folks consider
http://www.pcg-random.org ? This talk was great
http://www.pcg-random.org/posts/stanford-colloquium-talk.htm...HN discussions of PCG Random: 1) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9887548 2) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10544943