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// Copyright 2019 The Abseil Authors.
//
// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
// you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
// You may obtain a copy of the License at
//
// https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
//
// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
// distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
// See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
// limitations under the License.
#ifndef ABSL_BASE_INTERNAL_EXPONENTIAL_BIASED_H_
#define ABSL_BASE_INTERNAL_EXPONENTIAL_BIASED_H_
#include <stdint.h>
#include "absl/base/config.h"
#include "absl/base/macros.h"
namespace absl {
ABSL_NAMESPACE_BEGIN
namespace base_internal {
// ExponentialBiased provides a small and fast random number generator for a
// rounded exponential distribution. This generator manages very little state,
// and imposes no synchronization overhead. This makes it useful in specialized
// scenarios requiring minimum overhead, such as stride based periodic sampling.
//
// ExponentialBiased provides two closely related functions, GetSkipCount() and
// GetStride(), both returning a rounded integer defining a number of events
// required before some event with a given mean probability occurs.
//
// The distribution is useful to generate a random wait time or some periodic
// event with a given mean probability. For example, if an action is supposed to
// happen on average once every 'N' events, then we can get a random 'stride'
// counting down how long before the event to happen. For example, if we'd want
// to sample one in every 1000 'Frobber' calls, our code could look like this:
//
// Frobber::Frobber() {
// stride_ = exponential_biased_.GetStride(1000);
// }
//
// void Frobber::Frob(int arg) {
// if (--stride == 0) {
// SampleFrob(arg);
// stride_ = exponential_biased_.GetStride(1000);
// }
// ...
// }
//
// The rounding of the return value creates a bias, especially for smaller means
// where the distribution of the fraction is not evenly distributed. We correct
// this bias by tracking the fraction we rounded up or down on each iteration,
// effectively tracking the distance between the cumulative value, and the
// rounded cumulative value. For example, given a mean of 2:
//
// raw = 1.63076, cumulative = 1.63076, rounded = 2, bias = -0.36923
// raw = 0.14624, cumulative = 1.77701, rounded = 2, bias = 0.14624
// raw = 4.93194, cumulative = 6.70895, rounded = 7, bias = -0.06805
// raw = 0.24206, cumulative = 6.95101, rounded = 7, bias = 0.24206
// etc...
//
// Adjusting with rounding bias is relatively trivial:
//
// double value = bias_ + exponential_distribution(mean)();
// double rounded_value = std::round(value);
// bias_ = value - rounded_value;
// return rounded_value;
//
// This class is thread-compatible.
class ExponentialBiased {
public:
// The number of bits set by NextRandom.
static constexpr int kPrngNumBits = 48;
// `GetSkipCount()` returns the number of events to skip before some chosen
// event happens. For example, randomly tossing a coin, we will on average
// throw heads once before we get tails. We can simulate random coin tosses
// using GetSkipCount() as:
//
// ExponentialBiased eb;
// for (...) {
// int number_of_heads_before_tail = eb.GetSkipCount(1);
// for (int flips = 0; flips < number_of_heads_before_tail; ++flips) {
// printf("head...");
// }
// printf("tail\n");
// }
//
int64_t GetSkipCount(int64_t mean);
// GetStride() returns the number of events required for a specific event to
// happen. See the class comments for a usage example. `GetStride()` is
// equivalent to `GetSkipCount(mean - 1) + 1`. When to use `GetStride()` or
// `GetSkipCount()` depends mostly on what best fits the use case.
int64_t GetStride(int64_t mean);
// Computes a random number in the range [0, 1<<(kPrngNumBits+1) - 1]
//
// This is public to enable testing.
static uint64_t NextRandom(uint64_t rnd);
private:
void Initialize();
uint64_t rng_{0};
double bias_{0};
bool initialized_{false};
};
// Returns the next prng value.
// pRNG is: aX+b mod c with a = 0x5DEECE66D, b = 0xB, c = 1<<48
// This is the lrand64 generator.
inline uint64_t ExponentialBiased::NextRandom(uint64_t rnd) {
const uint64_t prng_mult = uint64_t{0x5DEECE66D};
const uint64_t prng_add = 0xB;
const uint64_t prng_mod_power = 48;
const uint64_t prng_mod_mask =
~((~static_cast<uint64_t>(0)) << prng_mod_power);
return (prng_mult * rnd + prng_add) & prng_mod_mask;
}
} // namespace base_internal
ABSL_NAMESPACE_END
} // namespace absl
#endif // ABSL_BASE_INTERNAL_EXPONENTIAL_BIASED_H_
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