From 376afcf135e5e209c4a2da3f0d58fb7a79f9e6a2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Rafael Fourquet <fourquet.rafael@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2014 20:07:31 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] faster randn with ifelse

---
 base/random.jl | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/base/random.jl b/base/random.jl
index af916e706005e..1e344729b3c19 100644
--- a/base/random.jl
+++ b/base/random.jl
@@ -940,7 +940,7 @@ function randmtzig_randn(rng::MersenneTwister=GLOBAL_RNG)
             r = randi(rng)
             rabs = int64(r>>1) # One bit for the sign
             idx = rabs & 0xFF
-            x = (r&1 != 0x000000000 ? -rabs : rabs)*wi[idx+1]
+            x = ifelse(r % Bool, -rabs, rabs)*wi[idx+1]
             if rabs < ki[idx+1]
                 return x # 99.3% of the time we return here 1st try
             elseif idx == 0