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diff --git a/haskell/haskell-double-conversion/README b/haskell/haskell-double-conversion/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..02c9f9af43 --- /dev/null +++ b/haskell/haskell-double-conversion/README @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +A library that performs fast, accurate conversion between double +precision floating point and text. + +This library is implemented as bindings to the C++ double-conversion +library written by Florian Loitsch at Google: +https://github.com/floitsch/double-conversion. + +The Text versions of these functions are about 30 times faster than the +default show implementation for the Double type. + +The ByteString versions are slower than the Text versions; roughly half +the speed. (This seems to be due to the cost of allocating ByteString +values via malloc.) + +As a final note, be aware that the bytestring-show package is about 50% +slower than simply using show. |