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Goodman–Weare.

Same Hessian-based proposal; the walker ensemble (10 by default, raised to 32 in the example below) takes care of step scaling via the stretch move, so the proposal width matters less here than for MH.

chain proposal gaussian fit
chain type gw
chain length 5000
chain burn 1000
chain walkers 32
parallel walkers 4
chain run gw.fits

Observed: 9 s elapsed time (the 32-walker ensemble parallelizes efficiently across 4 cores).