Crate features

For definitive documentation of crate features, check the crate release's Cargo.toml:

• https://docs.rs/crate/rand/latest/source/Cargo.toml.orig
• https://docs.rs/crate/rand_core/latest/source/Cargo.toml.orig
• https://docs.rs/crate/rand_distr/latest/source/Cargo.toml.orig

Common features

The following features are common to rand_core, rand, rand_distr and potentially some RNG crates:

• std: opt into functionality dependent on the std lib. This is default-enabled except in rand_core; for no_std usage, use default-features = false.
• alloc: enables functionality requiring an allocator (for usage with no_std). This is implied by std.
• serde1: enables serialization via [serde], version 1.0.

Rand features

Additional rand features:

• small_rng enables the SmallRng generator (feature-gated since v0.7).
• simd_support: Experimental support for generating various SIMD types (requires nightly rustc).
• log enables a few log messages via [log].

Note regarding SIMD: the above flag concerns explicit generation of SIMD types only and not optimisation. SIMD operations may be used internally regardless of this flag; e.g. the ChaCha generator has explicit support for SIMD operations internally.

rand_distr features

The floating point functions from num_traits and libm are used to support no_std environments and ensure reproducibility. If the floating point functions from std are preferred, which may provide better accuracy and performance but may produce different random values, the std_math feature can be enabled. (Note that any other crate depending on num-traits's std feature (default-enabled) will have the same effect.)