“Floating-Point Printing and Parsing Can Be Simple And Fast”
The fastest known floating-point printer and parsing algorithms - fixed-width printing, shortest-width printing, and parsing, all in 400 lines of Go.
https://research.swtch.com/fp
https://research.swtch.com/fp-proof
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RE: https://hachyderm.io/@rsc/115924064984026510
This may finally be the end (for me at least) of a conversation started 30 or so years ago, when Ken Thompson and I tried to figure out a clean way to convert to and from digital representations of floating point numbers.
Nice work, 
@rscRuss Cox
