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Write went through decimal.StringFixed, which rounds via big.Int and builds intermediate strings: 11 allocs/op for a typical price. Format directly from the int64 coefficient when it fits, rounding half away from zero as StringFixed does, and fall back otherwise (large coefficients, negative or >19 scale). BenchmarkFIXDecimalWrite: 203ns, 208B, 11 allocs -> 21ns, 24B, 2 allocs. A differential test checks the result against StringFixed over edge coefficients, exponents and scales.
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I checked this out locally (go1.27.3, linux/amd64) and tried to break the fast path against StringFixed:
- Wrote a throwaway test that compares
FIXDecimal{decimal.New(c, e), s}.Write()withStringFixed(s)over 5M random cases: small coefficients, full-range int64 (includingMinInt64and values nearMaxInt64), exponents -25..25 and scales -2..21 so the fallback branches get hit too. 0 mismatches. - Also tried a few values from
decimal.NewFromString(-0.004,0.005,-0.005,1.50,99999999999999999999.5,-1e-30,123456789.987654321) at scales 0, 2 and 8, plus the zero valueFIXDecimal{}(nil coefficient). All match, and negative values that round to zero come out as0.00with no sign, same as before. go test .andgo vet .pass on the branch.
Benchmark on my machine, same BenchmarkFIXDecimalWrite:
main: 379.9 ns/op 208 B/op 11 allocs/op
PR: 43.4 ns/op 24 B/op 2 allocs/op
The r >= div-r half-up check is a nice touch since div can be above 1<<63 at scale 19. Looks good to me from the testing side.
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Closes #786.
FIXDecimal.Writeformats viadecimal.StringFixed, which rounds throughbig.Intand builds intermediate strings. This adds a fast path that formats directly from the int64 coefficient, rounding half away from zero asStringFixeddoes. It falls back to the existing path for coefficients beyond int64, negative scale, and scale >= 20, so output is unchanged.Benchmark (
BenchmarkFIXDecimalWrite,benchstat, 10 runs):Tests:
TestFIXDecimalWriteMatchesStringFixedcompares againstStringFixedover edge coefficients (includingMinInt64), exponents -25..25 and several scales, including rounding ties and negative values that round to zero.go test -raceandgo vetpass.log/mongofails onmaintoo, since it needs a MongoDB instance.