Hi! Gcc5 has implemented 'SSO'. The length of small string local buffer is 15, which is enough to store an integer. So we can use 'numeric_limits<int>::digits+1' to get the max length of int instead of dynamically obtaining the length of the integer through __to_chars_len. In this way, I will get a performance improvement of about 15%.
Before optimization: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Benchmark Time CPU Iterations -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- # to_string<int> Int2String 191785 ns 191780 ns 3645 # to_string<unsigned> Unsigned2String 159605 ns 159599 ns 4367 After optimization: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Benchmark Time CPU Iterations -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- # to_string<int> Int2String 159382 ns 159381 ns 4354 # to_string<unsigned> Unsigned2String 136744 ns 136742 ns 5144 2020-09-13 Liuke <liuke.ge...@bytedance.com> libstdc++-v3/ChangeLog: * include/bits/basic_string.h: Use std::numeric_limits<int>::digits10 instead of __to_chars_len. Diff: diff --git a/libstdc++-v3/include/bits/basic_string.h b/libstdc++-v3/include/bits/basic_string.h index b61fe05efcf..5cbec537b2f 100644 --- a/libstdc++-v3/include/bits/basic_string.h +++ b/libstdc++-v3/include/bits/basic_string.h @@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ #include <ext/atomicity.h> #include <ext/alloc_traits.h> #include <debug/debug.h> +#include <limits> #if __cplusplus >= 201103L #include <initializer_list> @@ -3721,7 +3722,7 @@ _GLIBCXX_BEGIN_NAMESPACE_CXX11 { const bool __neg = __val < 0; const unsigned __uval = __neg ? (unsigned)~__val + 1u : __val; - const auto __len = __detail::__to_chars_len(__uval); + const auto __len = std::numeric_limits<int>::digits10 + 1; string __str(__neg + __len, '-'); __detail::__to_chars_10_impl(&__str[__neg], __len, __uval); return __str; @@ -3730,7 +3731,7 @@ _GLIBCXX_BEGIN_NAMESPACE_CXX11 inline string to_string(unsigned __val) { - string __str(__detail::__to_chars_len(__val), '\0'); + string __str(std::numeric_limits<unsigned>::digits10 + 1;, '\0'); __detail::__to_chars_10_impl(&__str[0], __str.size(), __val); return __str; }