Ryū: fast float-to-string conversion

@article{Adams2018RyFF,
  title={Ryū: fast float-to-string conversion},
  author={Ulf Adams},
  journal={Proceedings of the 39th ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation},
  year={2018}
}
  • Ulf Adams
  • Published 11 June 2018
  • Computer Science
  • Proceedings of the 39th ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation
We present Ryū, a new routine to convert binary floating point numbers to their decimal representations using only fixed-size integer operations, and prove its correctness. Ryū is simpler and approximately three times faster than the previously fastest implementation. 
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