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implements the Grisu2 algorithm for binary to decimal floating-point conversion. More...

Detailed Description

implements the Grisu2 algorithm for binary to decimal floating-point conversion.

This implementation is a slightly modified version of the reference implementation which may be obtained from http://florian.loitsch.com/publications (bench.tar.gz).

The code is distributed under the MIT license, Copyright (c) 2009 Florian Loitsch.

For a detailed description of the algorithm see:

[1] Loitsch, "Printing Floating-Point Numbers Quickly and Accurately with Integers", Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN 2010 Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation, PLDI 2010 [2] Burger, Dybvig, "Printing Floating-Point Numbers Quickly and Accurately", Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN 1996 Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation, PLDI 1996