tree 5d2aa8be43316fee121f07773cb9774072273540
parent 80baf3ae24040530964d3671ad7ac8229b6938e7
author Michael Jones <michaelrj@google.com> 1635787939 -0700
committer Copybara-Service <copybara-worker@google.com> 1636481712 -0800

[libc] refactor atof string parsing

Split the code for parsing hexadecimal floating point numbers from the
code for parsing the decimal floating point numbers so that the parsing
can be faster for both of them.

This decreases the time for the benchmark in release mode by about 15%,
which noticeably beats GLibc.

Old version: 2.299s
New version: 1.893s
GLibc: 2.133s

Tests run by running the following command 10 times for each version:
time ~/llvm-project/build/bin/libc_str_to_float_comparison_test ~/parse-number-fxx-test-data/data/*

the parse-number-fxx-test-data-repository is here:
https://github.com/nigeltao/parse-number-fxx-test-data/tree/fe94de252c691900982050c8e7c503d1efd1299a

It's important to build llvm-libc in Release mode for accurate
performance comparisons against glibc (set -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release in
your cmake).
You also have to build the libc_str_to_float_comparison_test target.

Reviewed By: lntue

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D113036

GitOrigin-RevId: 8298424cae9b4d3d41dbe17857dc9cb247d90786