/// ------------------------------------------------------
/// RandomOps - (Pseudo) Random Number Generator For C#
/// Copyright (C) 2003-2010 Magnus Erik Hvass Pedersen.
/// Please see the file license.txt for license details.
/// RandomOps on the internet: http://www.Hvass-Labs.org/
/// ------------------------------------------------------
using System;
using System.Threading;
namespace RandomOps.ThreadSafe
{
///
/// Wrapper for an RNG that makes the calls to Uniform(), Bool(), Byte(), and
/// Bytes() thread-safe by locking the object. Note that it is the ThreadSafe
/// object that is being locked and not the RNG object it wraps around, so calls
/// to methods should always be made to the ThreadSafe-object and not to the
/// RNG object directly. This works well for infrequent access to the RNG but
/// for frequent access you should use e.g. ThreadSafe.MWC256 instead for
/// performance reasons.
///
///
/// Derived calls are also thread-safe because they in turn call Uniform()
/// and the other base-methods. If you use a custom RNG that have additional
/// methods available which do not indirectly call one of the base-methods,
/// then you must implement similar thread-safe wrappers. The RNG-object can
/// potentially be locked several times by one thread because of how e.g.
/// Bool() may call Uniform(), and such nested locking is supported in C#.
/// It may be possible to implement more efficient locks for certain RNG's,
/// e.g. for Ran2 we could instead implement a threadsafe version of the
/// internal Rand() method.
///
public partial class Wrapper : Random
{
#region Constructor.
///
/// Construct the thread-safe RNG wrapper.
///
/// The RNG to be made thread-safe.
public Wrapper(Random rand)
{
_rand = rand;
}
#endregion
#region Public methods.
///
/// Same as a call to Monitor.Enter() on the RNG-object (not the
/// ThreadSafe-object). Useful if you need to generate several random
/// numbers in a batch without having to reacquire the lock for
/// each call to the RNG.
///
public void Enter()
{
Monitor.Enter(this);
}
///
/// Same as a call to Monitor.Exit() on the RNG-object (not the
/// ThreadSafe-object). Must be called once for each call to Enter()
/// to release the lock again.
///
public void Exit()
{
Monitor.Exit(this);
}
#endregion
#region Internal variables.
///
/// The non-thread-safe RNG used for generating the numbers.
///
Random _rand;
#endregion
#region Base-class Overrides.
///
/// Name of the RNG.
///
public override string Name
{
get { return "ThreadSafe(" + _rand.Name + ")"; }
}
///
/// Thread-safe wrapper for Uniform(). Note that derived methods
/// that rely on Uniform() to create their random numbers, e.g.
/// Gauss(), will automatically also be thread-safe.
///
public sealed override double Uniform()
{
double value;
lock (this)
{
value = _rand.Uniform();
}
return value;
}
///
/// Thread-safe wrapper for Bool().
///
public sealed override bool Bool()
{
bool b;
lock (this)
{
b = _rand.Bool();
}
return b;
}
///
/// Thread-safe wrapper for Byte().
///
public sealed override byte Byte()
{
byte b;
lock (this)
{
b = _rand.Byte();
}
return b;
}
///
/// Thread-safe wrapper for Bytes().
///
/// Number of random bytes to return.
/// Array of random bytes.
public sealed override byte[] Bytes(int length)
{
byte[] arr;
lock (this)
{
arr = _rand.Bytes(length);
}
return arr;
}
///
/// Thread-safe wrapper for Gauss().
///
///
/// The default implementation calls Uniform() a number of times.
/// This wrapper therefore locks the RNG-object for the entirety
/// of these multiple calls, instead of locking for each separate
/// call to Uniform().
///
public sealed override double Gauss()
{
double value;
lock (this)
{
value = _rand.Gauss();
}
return value;
}
#endregion
}
}