The fastest way are probably rational numbers, as they are natively available in many functional languages or Perl6. That is, 0.1 is represented as the integer tupls (1,10) instead of a floating point number.
How many FLOP do you need to add two rationals? We don't have int type in javascript, only bigInt but it not supported in some browsers and probably not fast enough.
Adding two rationals boils down to adding 2x two integers. Integer arithmetic is in general less complex then floating point arithmetic. But of course that's not true if your hardware supports single instruction double floating point arithmetic (which any relevant 64bit architecture does).
The problems begins when calculations is long and int64/int32 not enough to store full fraction precision. Lol seems that I find a bug in Fraction.js in rounding https://runkit.com/munrocket/fraction-js-test, but it used in popular Math.js library.
Please note that Perl 6 has been renamed to Raku (https://raku.org using the #rakulang tag on social media). So in Perl `say "same" if .1 + .2 == .3` will not say anything, as that condition is not true. In Raku, `say "same" if .1 + .2 == .3` will display "same".
The first example
does the equivalent of which happens to produce a ‘float32’ that prints as “0.2”, but for ‘float64’ vs ‘float128’.I expect that adding a sufficient number of zeroes, as in
(actual number of zeroes is too low here, to prevent wrapping on phone screens) will surface the problem again.