Re: Ryu floating point output patch

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Andrew Gierth <andrew(at)tao11(dot)riddles(dot)org(dot)uk>, Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Ryu floating point output patch
Date: 2018-12-14 18:53:01
Message-ID: 20181214185301.2z5prubjnfdqqdml@alap3.anarazel.de
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Hi,

On 2018-12-14 13:47:53 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> writes:
> > It's been absorbed into MSVC's standard library and a bunch of other
> > projects, so there's certainly some other prominent adoption.
>
> If we think that's going on, maybe we should just sit tight till glibc
> absorbs it.

All the stuff it'll have to put above it will make it slower
anyway. It's not like this'll be a feature that's hard to rip out if all
libc's have fast roundtrip safe conversion routines, or if something
better comes along.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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