Add xorshift to core::rand, which gave a 3x speedup for graph generation in the bfs code. Also, remove trailing white space.

src/libcore/rand.rs

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 #[doc = "Random number generation"];
 
 export rng, seed, seeded_rng, weighted, extensions;
+export xorshift, seeded_xorshift;
 
 enum rctx {}
 
@@ -253,6 +254,35 @@ fn seeded_rng(seed: [u8]) -> rng {
     @rand_res(rustrt::rand_new_seeded(seed)) as rng
 }
 
+type xorshift_state = {
+    mut x: u32,
+    mut y: u32,
+    mut z: u32,
+    mut w: u32
+};
+
+impl of rng for xorshift_state {
+    fn next() -> u32 {
+        let x = self.x;
+        let mut t = x ^ (x << 11);
+        self.x = self.y;
+        self.y = self.z;
+        self.z = self.w;
+        let w = self.w;
+        self.w = w ^ (w >> 19) ^ (t ^ (t >> 8));
+        self.w
+    }
+}
+
+fn xorshift() -> rng {
+    // constants taken from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xorshift
+    seeded_xorshift(123456789u32, 362436069u32, 521288629u32, 88675123u32)
+}
+
+fn seeded_xorshift(x: u32, y: u32, z: u32, w: u32) -> rng {
+    {mut x: x, mut y: y, mut z: z, mut w: w} as rng
+}
+
 #[cfg(test)]
 mod tests {
 

src/test/bench/graph500-bfs.rs

@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ type graph = [[node_id]];
 type bfs_result = [node_id];
 
 fn make_edges(scale: uint, edgefactor: uint) -> [(node_id, node_id)] {
-    let r = rand::rng();
+    let r = rand::xorshift();
 
     fn choose_edge(i: node_id, j: node_id, scale: uint, r: rand::rng)
         -> (node_id, node_id) {
@@ -247,12 +247,12 @@ fn pbfs(&&graph: arc::arc<graph>, key: node_id) -> bfs_result {
                   white {
                     let i = i as node_id;
                     
-                    let neighbors = (*graph)[i];
+                    let neighbors = graph[i];
                     
                     let mut color = white;
                     
                     neighbors.each() {|k|
-                        if is_gray((*colors)[k]) {
+                        if is_gray(colors[k]) {
                             color = gray(k);
                             false
                         }