Faster printing of floats; is this something that D could benefit from?

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On Saturday, 28 July 2018 at 16:52:08 UTC, Eugene Wissner wrote:
> On Saturday, 28 July 2018 at 16:02:22 UTC, Gary Willoughby 
> wrote:
>> I just saw this on hacker news:
>>
>>> [...]
>>
>> 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
>
> Thanks, it looks very interesting (and hey, it is a bit too 
> late, I've just finished to implement errol in D today :)).
>
> After a fast look at the texts, I can't find information about 
> the optimality. They compare ryu mostly to grisu and grisu 
> produces always correct, but not always optimal results, so it 
> fallbacks to a slower algorithm for some values.
> It would be also nice to have some paper; I see only videos. 
> Maybe a paper will come soon.

paper : https://dl.acm.org/ft_gateway.cfm?id=3192369&type=pdf