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		floitsch 24 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Zmij: Faster floating point double-to-string conve... Pretty impressive. When I published Grisu (Google double-conversion), it was multiple times faster than the existing algorithms. I knew that there was still room for improvement, but I was at most expecting a factor 2 or so. Six times faster is really impressive.

vitaut 24 days ago [–]

Thank you! It means a lot coming from you, Grisu was the first algorithm that I implemented =). (I am the author of the blog post.)

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