RFC on floating point output work

[Paolo Carlini]

Benjamin Kosnik wrote:

>Jerry,
>
>Paolo had told me in passing that he knows of another intrepid hacker
>who is interested in working on this. The details escape me at the
>moment, sorry. Perhaps he can provide more information and an
>introduction for you, so that a team effort can be applied to this problem?
>
:)

>Paolo?
>
Yes, I contacted Jerry back in July and discussed a bit the various 
options (i.e., snprintfv by Paolo Bonzini). Then Jerry proceeded alone a 
long way and now I see that he has something already quite defined.

I'm planning to study deeply his current floatconv.cc in the next few 
days and report.

Jerry, which kind of speed improvements do you expect for the final 
result (including localization)?

Paolo.