[Insight-users] Thread safety and using MersenneTwisterRandomVariateGenerator

[Cyrille Faucheux]

I need to use uniform and gaussian randomly generated numbers in a 
multithreaded filter.

The class itk::Statistics::MersenneTwisterRandomVariateGenerator used to 
be marked as "not thread-safe" and is now marked as "not reentrant".

Is it safe to use it in a multithreaded filter ?

And is there any advantage of using it instead of vnl_sample_normal() 
and vnl_sample_uniform() ?

Thanks

Cyrille