On 12/22/2015 10:15 AM, Andrew Chapman wrote:
> On Tuesday, 22 December 2015 at 18:11:24 UTC, rumbu wrote:
>> Converting numbers to string involves the most expensive known two
>> operations : division and modulus by 10.
>
> Cool thanks, so essentially it's unavoidable
There is hope. :)
> I have a background in PHP programming where we don't really get
exposed to
> memory allocation, conversions etc.
You will love Andrei's recently-released presentations from code::dive
in November 2015:
Writing Fast Code I: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ph7FP0LnmcA
Writing Fast Code II: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_FXy3cT5C8
Three Cool Things about D: https://youtube.com/watch?v=FdpaBHyQNco
The first one has an example of optimizing uint64ToAscii() at around
1:16:30:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=ph7FP0LnmcA#t=4604
Ali
