Ryū: fast float-to-string conversion

2018/06/11 by Ulf Adams · 1 citation
Computer Science · #Numerical Methods and Algorithms #Computational Physics and Python Applications #Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques

paper · pdf · doi:10.1145/3296979.3192369

openalex publication_date 2018/06/11 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/05/21

Abstract

We present Ryū, a new routine to convert binary floating point numbers to their decimal representations using only fixed-size integer operations, and prove its correctness. Ryū is simpler and approximately three times faster than the previously fastest implementation.

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