Printing floating points

Joseph Rushton Wakeling joseph.wakeling at webdrake.net
Wed Jan 27 01:38:38 UTC 2021


On Wednesday, 27 January 2021 at 01:16:40 UTC, Bruce Carneal 
wrote:
> 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.

Yup, I'm in complete agreement with you on this.  I am curious if 
the MS implementation and usage carries the extra weight 
described (ryu alone is more lightweight, it's ryu printf that 
has the larger tables).


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