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fast_double_parser
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lemire / fast_double_parser

fast_double_parser

Fast function to parse strings into double (binary64) floating-point values, enforces the RFC 7159 (JSON standard) grammar: 4x faster than strtod

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669GitHub stars
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Fast function to parse strings into double (binary64) floating-point values, enforces the RFC 7159 (JSON standard) grammar: 4x faster than strtod

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Observed mentions: 2020-03-10 03:29:47 UTC to 2023-02-09 21:04:43 UTC.

0122020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments20202021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20212022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2023

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20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC211
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

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It has about 15 KB of data: 10KB in power_of_ten_components and 5KB in mantissa_128. [1] That's ~23% of the per-core L1 data cache on (eg) the recently announced APU chip. [2, 3] So before getting too excited about the microbenchmark numbers, I'd be careful to ensure the additional cache pressure doesn't slow down my program as a whole. edit: also, ~2.5KB of that is due to padding in power_of_ten_components. I wonder if it'd be better to split the uint64_t field into two uint32_ts to avoid this. [1] https://github.com/lemire/fast_double_parser/blob/master/inc... [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22440894 [3] https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/amd/ryzen_embedded/r1606g
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