[svn:parrot] r42543 - trunk

[barney at svn.parrot.org]

Author: barney
Date: Tue Nov 17 08:46:55 2009
New Revision: 42543
URL: https://trac.parrot.org/parrot/changeset/42543

Log:
Added news about the deprecated Mersenne twisted pseudorandom number generator.

Modified:
   trunk/NEWS

Modified: trunk/NEWS
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--- trunk/NEWS	Tue Nov 17 08:11:39 2009	(r42542)
+++ trunk/NEWS	Tue Nov 17 08:46:55 2009	(r42543)
@@ -28,6 +28,8 @@
   + Use the the fixed-sized allocator in the Context and the CallSignature PMC.
   + Many small speed improvements.
 - New deprecations
+  + MT19937, the Mersenne twisted pseudorandom number generator, is now hosted on github and 
+    will be removed from the Parrot core. (eligible in 2.1)
   + The 'Parrot_call_*' functions for invoking a sub/method object from C are
     deprecated. They are replaced by 'Parrot_ext_call'. (eligible in 2.1)
   + All bitwise VTABLE functions are deprecated. (eligible in 2.1)