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Re:Zmij: Faster floating point double-to-string conversion by floitsch on Wednesday December 17, 2025 @03:45PM (#46305277)
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.

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Re:Zmij: Faster floating point double-to-string conversion by vitaut on Wednesday December 17, 2025 @04:39PM (#46305885)
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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