This improves the speed of to_chars for bases 2, 8, and 16.
These bases are common and used in <format>. This change
uses a lookup table, like done in base 10 and causes an increase
in code size. The change has a small overhead for the other bases.
Benchmark Time CPU Time Old Time New CPU Old CPU New ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ BM_to_chars_good/2 -0.9476 -0.9476 252 13 252 13 BM_to_chars_good/3 +0.0018 +0.0018 145 145 145 145 BM_to_chars_good/4 +0.0108 +0.0108 104 105 104 105 BM_to_chars_good/5 +0.0159 +0.0160 89 91 89 91 BM_to_chars_good/6 +0.0162 +0.0162 80 81 80 81 BM_to_chars_good/7 +0.0117 +0.0117 72 73 72 73 BM_to_chars_good/8 -0.8643 -0.8643 64 9 64 9 BM_to_chars_good/9 +0.0095 +0.0095 60 60 60 60 BM_to_chars_good/10 +0.0540 +0.0540 6 6 6 6 BM_to_chars_good/11 +0.0299 +0.0299 55 57 55 57 BM_to_chars_good/12 +0.0060 +0.0060 48 49 49 49 BM_to_chars_good/13 +0.0102 +0.0102 48 48 48 48 BM_to_chars_good/14 +0.0184 +0.0185 47 48 47 48 BM_to_chars_good/15 +0.0269 +0.0269 44 45 44 45 BM_to_chars_good/16 -0.8207 -0.8207 37 7 37 7 BM_to_chars_good/17 +0.0241 +0.0241 37 38 37 38 BM_to_chars_good/18 +0.0221 +0.0221 37 38 37 38 BM_to_chars_good/19 +0.0222 +0.0223 37 38 37 38 BM_to_chars_good/20 +0.0317 +0.0317 38 39 38 39 BM_to_chars_good/21 +0.0342 +0.0341 38 39 38 39 BM_to_chars_good/22 +0.0336 +0.0336 36 38 36 38 BM_to_chars_good/23 +0.0222 +0.0222 34 35 34 35 BM_to_chars_good/24 +0.0185 +0.0185 31 32 31 32 BM_to_chars_good/25 +0.0157 +0.0157 32 32 32 32 BM_to_chars_good/26 +0.0181 +0.0181 32 32 32 32 BM_to_chars_good/27 +0.0153 +0.0153 32 32 32 32 BM_to_chars_good/28 +0.0179 +0.0179 32 32 32 32 BM_to_chars_good/29 +0.0189 +0.0189 32 33 32 33 BM_to_chars_good/30 +0.0212 +0.0212 32 33 32 33 BM_to_chars_good/31 +0.0221 +0.0221 32 33 32 33 BM_to_chars_good/32 +0.0292 +0.0292 32 33 32 33 BM_to_chars_good/33 +0.0319 +0.0319 32 33 32 33 BM_to_chars_good/34 +0.0411 +0.0410 33 34 33 34 BM_to_chars_good/35 +0.0515 +0.0515 33 34 33 34 BM_to_chars_good/36 +0.0502 +0.0502 32 34 32 34 BM_to_chars_bad/2 -0.8752 -0.8752 40 5 40 5 BM_to_chars_bad/3 +0.1952 +0.1952 21 26 21 26 BM_to_chars_bad/4 +0.3626 +0.3626 16 22 16 22 BM_to_chars_bad/5 +0.2267 +0.2268 17 21 17 21 BM_to_chars_bad/6 +0.3560 +0.3559 14 19 14 19 BM_to_chars_bad/7 +0.4599 +0.4600 12 18 12 18 BM_to_chars_bad/8 -0.5074 -0.5074 11 5 11 5 BM_to_chars_bad/9 +0.4814 +0.4814 10 15 10 15 BM_to_chars_bad/10 +0.7761 +0.7761 2 4 2 4 BM_to_chars_bad/11 +0.3948 +0.3948 12 16 12 16 BM_to_chars_bad/12 +0.3203 +0.3203 10 13 10 13 BM_to_chars_bad/13 +0.3067 +0.3067 11 14 11 14 BM_to_chars_bad/14 +0.2235 +0.2235 12 14 12 14 BM_to_chars_bad/15 +0.2675 +0.2675 11 14 11 14 BM_to_chars_bad/16 -0.1801 -0.1801 7 5 7 5 BM_to_chars_bad/17 +0.5651 +0.5651 7 11 7 11 BM_to_chars_bad/18 +0.5407 +0.5406 7 11 7 11 BM_to_chars_bad/19 +0.5593 +0.5593 8 12 8 12 BM_to_chars_bad/20 +0.5823 +0.5823 8 13 8 13 BM_to_chars_bad/21 +0.6032 +0.6032 9 15 9 15 BM_to_chars_bad/22 +0.6407 +0.6408 9 14 9 14 BM_to_chars_bad/23 +0.6292 +0.6292 7 12 7 12 BM_to_chars_bad/24 +0.5784 +0.5784 6 10 6 10 BM_to_chars_bad/25 +0.5784 +0.5784 6 10 6 10 BM_to_chars_bad/26 +0.5713 +0.5713 7 10 7 10 BM_to_chars_bad/27 +0.5969 +0.5969 7 11 7 11 BM_to_chars_bad/28 +0.6131 +0.6131 7 11 7 11 BM_to_chars_bad/29 +0.6937 +0.6937 7 11 7 11 BM_to_chars_bad/30 +0.7655 +0.7656 7 12 7 12 BM_to_chars_bad/31 +0.8939 +0.8939 6 12 6 12 BM_to_chars_bad/32 +1.0157 +1.0157 6 13 6 13 BM_to_chars_bad/33 +1.0279 +1.0279 7 14 7 14 BM_to_chars_bad/34 +1.0388 +1.0388 7 14 7 14 BM_to_chars_bad/35 +1.0990 +1.0990 7 15 7 15 BM_to_chars_bad/36 +1.1503 +1.1503 7 15 7 15
The red flag here was the : unsigned (I was like, "why does the signedness matter? better study closer") but actually, why do we need an enumerator for this at all? It's used only twice, and in contexts like
The number 2 is hard-coded so many places here, two more won't make a difference (and will save two lines and eliminate a red flag). Ditto in the 8 and 16 cases.
(If this was to appease clang-tidy: Don't appease it. :))