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A howl on the wind…
Personal blog · tinodidriksen.comprogramminggames
A howl on the wind… is a personal blog at tinodidriksen.com about programming and games. Since 2012, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for C++ benchmarks of converting numbers to and from strings, such as Boost.Spirit.Karma versus sprintf and different string-to-double methods.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
Some of them. For example Boost.Spirit.Karma is an order of magnitude faster than sprintf (I don't know compared to fbformat), with the drawback of a very long compile time (see here: http://tinodidriksen.com/2010/02/07/cpp-convert-int-to-strin... ). Arena, SmallLocks and AtomicHashMap will have to challenge Intel TBB. I submit TBB will be better, but I haven't done the benchmarks. As for the rest, some of the stuff…
Comment linking /2010/02/07/cpp-convert-int-to-string-speed/
on “Folly - The Faceboook open source library”Submitted But Can You Make Pong? (2003) as a story · 12 points
HN discussionSome benchmarks for difference C++ methods of converting a string to double: http://tinodidriksen.com/2011/05/28/cpp-convert-string-to-do...
Comment linking /2011/05/28/cpp-convert-string-to-double-speed/
on “How fast is fscanf?”Submitted But Can You Make Pong? as a story · 1 points
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