I recently read a paper http://www0.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/d.jones/GoodPracticeRNG.pdf in which the author pointed out how important initialization is in usage of PRNG and he suggested that a warm up is needed for every usage of PRNG. And there is also paper written by the author of Mersenne Twister called "Common Defects in Initialization of Pseudorandom Number Generators"
So I am wondering, when we use vslNewStream to initialize a stream of particular PRNG algorithm. Does it automatically take care of those traps in initialization of a particular PRNG? Does it contains a warm up already? Can I safely generate random number sequence immediately after vslNewStream or should I add a warm up myself?
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