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e4m2 • yesterday at 8:12 PM • 4 replies • view on HN

Not mentioned: Floating-point parsing and formatting now uses Russ Cox's uscale algorithm.

https://research.swtch.com/fp

https://github.com/golang/go/blob/go1.27.0/src/internal/strc...

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jeremyloy_wt • yesterday at 8:51 PM

I’m so happy Russ still contributes even though he isn’t lead anymore. I always enjoy reading his blog posts

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dolmen • today at 9:24 AM

I seriously wonder why this isn't mentioned in release notes.

cornstalks • today at 2:15 AM

I’d love to see how that compares to zmij: https://github.com/dtolnay/dtoa-benchmark

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