Faster accurate printing of floating-point numbers

Don nospam at nospam.com
Fri Jul 1 15:10:49 PDT 2011


Daniel Gibson wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> dunno if D maybe already uses something like that, but I just stumbled
> upon this article and thought it may be of interest:
> http://www.serpentine.com/blog/2011/06/29/here-be-dragons-advances-in-problems-you-didnt-even-know-you-had/
> 
> The article claims that the discussed algorithm is about 5 times faster
> than what the GNU libc uses in printf.
> 
> Cheers,
> - Daniel

Thanks, that's a good paper.


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