On Saturday, 28 July 2018 at 16:02:22 UTC, Gary Willoughby wrote:
I just saw this on hacker news:
We present Ryū, a new routine to convert binary floating point
numbers to their decimal representations using only fixed-size
integer operations, and prove its correctness. Ryū is simpler
and approximately three times faster than the previously
fastest implementation.
Links:
https://pldi18.sigplan.org/event/pldi-2018-papers-ry-fast-float-to-string-conversion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kw-U6smcLzk
https://github.com/ulfjack/ryu
Added to the list of SAOC 2018 ideas
https://wiki.dlang.org/SAOC_2018_ideas#Implementation_of_RYU_to_convert_floats_to_strings
Kind regards
André
