This is achieved with a branchless bit-twiddling implementation of the
case x < 100_000, and using this as building block.
Benchmark on an Intel i7-8700K (Coffee Lake):
name old ns/iter new ns/iter diff ns/iter diff % speedup
num::int_log::u8_log10_predictable 165 169 4 2.42% x 0.98
num::int_log::u8_log10_random 438 423 -15 -3.42% x 1.04
num::int_log::u8_log10_random_small 438 423 -15 -3.42% x 1.04
num::int_log::u16_log10_predictable 633 417 -216 -34.12% x 1.52
num::int_log::u16_log10_random 908 471 -437 -48.13% x 1.93
num::int_log::u16_log10_random_small 945 471 -474 -50.16% x 2.01
num::int_log::u32_log10_predictable 1,496 1,340 -156 -10.43% x 1.12
num::int_log::u32_log10_random 1,076 873 -203 -18.87% x 1.23
num::int_log::u32_log10_random_small 1,145 874 -271 -23.67% x 1.31
num::int_log::u64_log10_predictable 4,005 3,171 -834 -20.82% x 1.26
num::int_log::u64_log10_random 1,247 1,021 -226 -18.12% x 1.22
num::int_log::u64_log10_random_small 1,265 921 -344 -27.19% x 1.37
num::int_log::u128_log10_predictable 39,667 39,579 -88 -0.22% x 1.00
num::int_log::u128_log10_random 6,456 6,696 240 3.72% x 0.96
num::int_log::u128_log10_random_small 4,108 3,903 -205 -4.99% x 1.05
Benchmark on an M1 Mac Mini:
name old ns/iter new ns/iter diff ns/iter diff % speedup
num::int_log::u8_log10_predictable 143 130 -13 -9.09% x 1.10
num::int_log::u8_log10_random 375 325 -50 -13.33% x 1.15
num::int_log::u8_log10_random_small 376 325 -51 -13.56% x 1.16
num::int_log::u16_log10_predictable 500 322 -178 -35.60% x 1.55
num::int_log::u16_log10_random 794 405 -389 -48.99% x 1.96
num::int_log::u16_log10_random_small 1,035 405 -630 -60.87% x 2.56
num::int_log::u32_log10_predictable 1,144 894 -250 -21.85% x 1.28
num::int_log::u32_log10_random 832 786 -46 -5.53% x 1.06
num::int_log::u32_log10_random_small 832 787 -45 -5.41% x 1.06
num::int_log::u64_log10_predictable 2,681 2,057 -624 -23.27% x 1.30
num::int_log::u64_log10_random 1,015 806 -209 -20.59% x 1.26
num::int_log::u64_log10_random_small 1,004 795 -209 -20.82% x 1.26
num::int_log::u128_log10_predictable 56,825 56,526 -299 -0.53% x 1.01
num::int_log::u128_log10_random 9,056 8,861 -195 -2.15% x 1.02
num::int_log::u128_log10_random_small 1,528 1,527 -1 -0.07% x 1.00
The 128 bit case remains ridiculously slow because llvm fails to optimize division by
a constant 128-bit value to multiplications. This could be worked around but it seems
preferable to fix this in llvm.
From u32 up, table lookup (like suggested here
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/70887#issuecomment-881099813) is still
faster, but requires a hardware leading_zero to be viable, and might clog up the
cache.
