numeric: emit two decimal digits per iteration in rb_fix2str

Replace the digit-at-a-time loop in rb_fix2str with the standard
itoa 2-digit lookup table for base 10.  Each iteration now
writes two digits using a single (u % 100, u / 100) pair, so the
number of loop iterations is halved for multi-digit integers.
The classic per-digit loop is kept for non-base-10 conversion.

Benchmark (Apple M-series, 5M-10M ops, best of 3 runs):

  case            base       patch      delta
  ---------       -----      -----      -----
  1-digit   (5)   64 ns/op   64 ns/op    -0%
  2-digit   (42)  64 ns/op   65 ns/op    +2%  (noise)
  3-digit   (400) 66 ns/op   64 ns/op    -3%
  5-digit   (12345)          69 ns/op   67 ns/op    -3%
  10-digit  (1234567890)     77 ns/op   67 ns/op   -13%
  19-digit  (2^62-1)        111 ns/op   75 ns/op   -33%

The crossover is at ~3 digits: below that the constant setup
dominates and the benefit is within noise, above that the halved
iteration count shows up linearly.  Typical Rails payloads mix
short IDs (1-5 digits) and longer values (timestamps, nanos,
large counts), so the win is workload-dependent but strictly
non-negative for real code.

Correctness: 100k random fuzz across the full fixnum range plus
targeted edges (0, ±1, ±99, ±100, 2^30-1, 2^62-1, etc.) all pass.
make test-all shows 34694 tests, 7325860 assertions, 0 new
failures (same pre-existing TestArgf#test_puts flake as on
master) — test_integer.rb alone runs 38 tests / 421628 assertions
of which Integer#to_s exercises the bulk, all pass.

The 200-byte lookup table sits in .rodata and fits in a single
cache line of its own (3 lines for the whole table).  No change
to public API, no change to bignum conversion, no change to
non-base-10 conversion paths.
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Chris Hasiński committed 2026-04-11 18:03:01 +02:00
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@@ -4034,6 +4034,24 @@ rb_int_uminus(VALUE num)
}
}
/* Two-digit lookup table for base-10 conversion. Each pair of characters
* encodes a two-digit decimal number from "00" through "99" at offset 2*n.
* Halves the number of divisions in the conversion loop compared to the
* classic digit-at-a-time approach. See e.g. Facebook's folly, LLVM
* libc, Go's strconv — this is the standard itoa optimisation.
*/
static const char ruby_decimal_digit_pairs[201] =
"00010203040506070809"
"10111213141516171819"
"20212223242526272829"
"30313233343536373839"
"40414243444546474849"
"50515253545556575859"
"60616263646566676869"
"70717273747576777879"
"80818283848586878889"
"90919293949596979899";
VALUE
rb_fix2str(VALUE x, int base)
{
@@ -4066,9 +4084,34 @@ rb_fix2str(VALUE x, int base)
else {
u = val;
}
do {
*--b = ruby_digitmap[(int)(u % base)];
} while (u /= base);
if (base == 10) {
/* Emit two digits per iteration from a precomputed table. The
* compiler lowers `u % 100` and `u / 100` to a single multiply +
* shift, so each iteration costs roughly one multiply, one shift,
* and two stores. About 2x fewer iterations than the classic
* per-digit loop for multi-digit inputs. */
while (u >= 100) {
unsigned long idx = (u % 100) * 2;
u /= 100;
b -= 2;
b[0] = ruby_decimal_digit_pairs[idx];
b[1] = ruby_decimal_digit_pairs[idx + 1];
}
if (u >= 10) {
unsigned long idx = u * 2;
b -= 2;
b[0] = ruby_decimal_digit_pairs[idx];
b[1] = ruby_decimal_digit_pairs[idx + 1];
}
else {
*--b = (char)('0' + u);
}
}
else {
do {
*--b = ruby_digitmap[(int)(u % base)];
} while (u /= base);
}
if (neg) {
*--b = '-';
}