Fascinating deep dive on float parsing in Rust:https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/a6j5j1/making_rust_float_parsing_fast_and_correct/ …
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nah, once we had the Rust port we could bypass LLVM altogether and only compute constants in miri, then give LLVM the raw bits
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but I trust the port more because it's all in safe Rust. it's also more efficient because it has less dynamism (i.e. it uses generics for the float format, unlike the C++ code)
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