[OT] Three Optimization Tips for C++

[Tove]

On Friday, 21 December 2012 at 16:28:35 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
>> use text based formats for performance sensitive data!
>>
>> Of course, maybe the 15% claim was pure exaggeration. I really 
>> hope
>> that's the case.
>
> Text representation has its own advantages.
>
>
> Andrei

interesting, does it have to be base 10? would it not be feasible 
to use hex strings in some scenarios? possible with bswap, or 
bitscan etc?