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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2010 21:15:58 -0500
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Subject: Re: [9fans] seq with hex, octal formats
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On Sat Feb 27 21:08:17 EST 2010, lyndon@orthanc.ca wrote:
> > using awk is still faster
>
> For the curious and lazy ... why is that?

it is curious!

it appears that the ape strtod is much faster,
though it isn't quite correct:

both of these are in /sys/src/libc/port/strtod.c

  %     Time     Calls  Name
43.8    3.492  4385186	fpcmp
35.0    2.788 62445696	frnorm

- erik