<story><title>Honey, I shrunk {fmt}: bringing binary size to 14k and ditching the C++ runtime</title><url>https://vitaut.net/posts/2024/binary-size/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>magnio</author><text>&amp;gt; All the formatting in {fmt} is locale-independent by default (which breaks with the C++’s tradition of having wrong defaults)&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Chuckles&lt;/i&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Honey, I shrunk {fmt}: bringing binary size to 14k and ditching the C++ runtime</title><url>https://vitaut.net/posts/2024/binary-size/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>h4ck_th3_pl4n3t</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s kind of mindblowing to see how much code floating point formatting needs.&lt;p&gt;The linked dragonbox [1] project is also worth a read. Pretty optimized for the least used branches.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;jk-jeon&amp;#x2F;dragonbox&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;jk-jeon&amp;#x2F;dragonbox&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>