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Re:Floating-Point Printing and Parsing Can Be Simple and Fast by adgjlsfhk1 on Friday January 23, 2026 @10:28PM (#46740783)
When 30% is only ~3-6 ns it definitely seems worthwhile.
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Re:Floating-Point Printing and Parsing Can Be Simple and Fast by vitaut on Saturday January 24, 2026 @10:49AM (#46744564)
Note that ~3-6ns is on modern desktop CPUs where extra few kB matter less. On microcontrollers it will be larger in absolute terms but I would expect the relative difference to also be moderate.
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