Printing floating points

[Joseph Rushton Wakeling]

On Tuesday, 26 January 2021 at 16:25:54 UTC, Berni44 wrote:
> The paper states 104KB for doubles (can be compressed on the
> expense of slowing  everthing down).

It also notes that "the size could be halved to 52 kB with no 
performance impact".

For comparison, a simple "Hello, World!", built with 
optimizations and stripped, comes to about 700 kB.  Even allowing 
that the 128-bit table (which will support 80-bit reals) is going 
to be larger, is this really an issue on modern machines?

The only circumstances I can see it mattering is in very 
low-resource embedded use-cases where D stdlib is unlikely to be 
viable anyway.