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From: Matt Borland (matt_at_[hidden])
Date: 2024-01-17 11:27:41
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> I see. Out of curiosity, what makes the parsing algorithm fail such that you need to call strtold?
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It's an intractable problem. I spent a few months trying to adapt Lemire's papers on fast_float to 128-bit precision. You need 10s of MBs of static data, and generating it at runtime is a non-starter. Ultimately Gay's algorithm works, and it's what is in strtold already. I would much rather use the battle tested implementations in the STL than my own.
Matt
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