Printing floating points

[Bruce Carneal]

On Wednesday, 27 January 2021 at 00:15:41 UTC, Joseph Rushton 
Wakeling wrote:
> 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.

I'd vote for "overweight and almost-certainly-correct" over "trim 
but iffy" if the extra poundage is reasonable which, in the 
non-embedded environments, it appears to be.

On another note, it looks like ryu was submitted by MS in late 
2019 for inclusion in libc++.  Despite a massive 3 minutes of 
google-fuing, I'm still not sure how far that has gotten but the 
direction seems pretty clear.  A large body of others believe 
that ryu is a good way to go and are moving to standardize on it.

It's not a live-or-die issue for me but ryu looks pretty good.