Hi,
On 2018-09-26 17:57:05 -0700, Andres Freund wrote:
> snprintf time = 1324.87 ms total, 0.000264975 ms per iteration
> pg time = 1434.57 ms total, 0.000286915 ms per iteration
> stbsp time = 552.14 ms total, 0.000110428 ms per iteration
Reading around the interwebz lead me to look at ryu
https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3192369
https://github.com/ulfjack/ryu/tree/46f4c5572121a6f1428749fe3e24132c3626c946
That's an algorithm that always generates the minimally sized
roundtrip-safe string output for a floating point number. That makes it
insuitable for the innards of printf, but it very well could be
interesting for e.g. float8out, especially when we currently specify a
"too high" precision to guarantee round-trip safeity.
Greetings,
Andres Freund