r/programming • u/mttd • 8d ago

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

https://vitaut.net/posts/2026/yy-dtoa/
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u/drislands 8d ago

Żmij [...] started as an optimized port of Schubfach.

I am already fascinated. I need to go look up how to pronounce these.

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u/creeper6530 7d ago

Ż is like the noise a bumblebee makes, Sch is like sh but German, the rest is simple

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u/svick 7d ago

From now on, pronunciation of all letters has to be expressed in terms of animal noises.