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by magicalhippo 143 days ago
What about reasonably fast but smallest code, for running on a microcontroller? Anything signifactly better in terms of compiled size (including lookups)?
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If you compress the table (see my earlier comment) and use plain Schubfach then you can get really small binary size and decent perf. IIRC Dragonbox with the compressed table was ~30% slower which is a reasonable price to pay and still faster than most algorithms including Ryu.
When 30% is only ~3-6 ns it definitely seems worthwhile.
Note that ~3-6ns is on modern desktop CPUs where extra few kB matter less. On microcontrollers it will be larger in absolute terms but I would expect the relative difference to also be moderate.