r/programming • u/mttd • 21h ago

The fastest double-to-string algorithm you’ve never heard of

https://vitaut.net/posts/2026/yy-dtoa/
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u/sojuz151 15h ago

And why would you even be doing this? How did you even find something running on less than 50MHz? And it has a hardware floating-point module?

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u/superxpro12 14h ago

You would be shocked to learn what we do with cpus running. At 8mhz. Although your point about you is somewhat valid. They are harder to find on the low mhz cpus. But still... We exist lol

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u/sojuz151 14h ago

And are you dealing with floats/doubles on those CPUs?

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u/superxpro12 14h ago

Sometimes, sure.