# Ryū
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Pure Rust implementation of Ryū, an algorithm to quickly convert floating point
numbers to decimal strings.
The PLDI'18 paper [*Ryū: fast float-to-string conversion*][paper] by Ulf Adams
includes a complete correctness proof of the algorithm. The paper is available
under the creative commons CC-BY-SA license.
This Rust implementation is a line-by-line port of Ulf Adams' implementation in
C, [https://github.com/ulfjack/ryu][upstream].
*Requirements: this crate supports any compiler version back to rustc 1.15; it
uses nothing from the Rust standard library so is usable from no_std crates.*
[paper]: https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3192369
[upstream]: https://github.com/ulfjack/ryu/tree/688f43b62276b400728baad54afc32c3ab9c1a95
```toml
[dependencies]
ryu = "1.0"
```
## Example
```rust
fn main() {
let mut buffer = ryu::Buffer::new();
let printed = buffer.format(1.234);
assert_eq!(printed, "1.234");
}
```
## Performance
You can run upstream's benchmarks with:
```console
$ git clone https://github.com/ulfjack/ryu c-ryu
$ cd c-ryu
$ bazel run -c opt //ryu/benchmark
```
And the same benchmark against our implementation with:
```console
$ git clone https://github.com/dtolnay/ryu rust-ryu
$ cd rust-ryu
$ cargo run --example upstream_benchmark --release
```
These benchmarks measure the average time to print a 32-bit float and average
time to print a 64-bit float, where the inputs are distributed as uniform random
bit patterns 32 and 64 bits wide.
The upstream C code, the unsafe direct Rust port, and the safe pretty Rust API
all perform the same, taking around 21 nanoseconds to format a 32-bit float and
31 nanoseconds to format a 64-bit float.
There is also a Rust-specific benchmark comparing this implementation to the
standard library which you can run with:
```console
$ cargo bench
```
The benchmark shows Ryu approximately 4-10x faster than the standard library
across a range of f32 and f64 inputs. Measurements are in nanoseconds per
iteration; smaller is better.
| type=f32 | 0.0 | 0.1234 | 2.718281828459045 | f32::MAX |
|:--------:|:----:|:------:|:-----------------:|:--------:|
| RYU | 3ns | 28ns | 23ns | 22ns |
| STD | 40ns | 106ns | 128ns | 110ns |
| type=f64 | 0.0 | 0.1234 | 2.718281828459045 | f64::MAX |
|:--------:|:----:|:------:|:-----------------:|:--------:|
| RYU | 3ns | 50ns | 35ns | 32ns |
| STD | 39ns | 105ns | 128ns | 202ns |
## Formatting
This library tends to produce more human-readable output than the standard
library's to\_string, which never uses scientific notation. Here are two
examples:
- *ryu:* 1.23e40, *std:* 12300000000000000000000000000000000000000
- *ryu:* 1.23e-40, *std:* 0.000000000000000000000000000000000000000123
Both libraries print short decimals such as 0.0000123 without scientific
notation.
#### License
Licensed under either of Apache License, Version
2.0 or Boost Software License 1.0 at your
option.
Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted
for inclusion in this crate by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall
be dual licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.