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Ryū: Fast Float-To-String Conversion

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Re: Ryū: Fast Float-To-String Conversion

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Other than printing out the numbers, what are the practical applications?

Javascript was mentioned in the talk; because of its weak typing and plenty of APIs that take strings, floating point printing is pretty common.

lack of 64bit integer maybe you mean, but all languages need (de)serializations so this problem is very common
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