[v3] Print ints directly to streambuf

[Richard Henderson]

On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 04:26:12PM -0800, Nathan Myers wrote:
> I wonder how often this is faster.   Probably we can identify targets 
> where it is, and add a flag in config.h.  (In practice, most numbers 
> are small, although maybe not most hex-formatted numbers.)

Dunno.  Definitely faster on i386, ia64, ppc, arm, alphaev67.

For others we get out-of-line code; dunno how much slower that
might be.  We could perhaps re-instate some ifdeffing such 
that the out of line code did a binary search for the correct
value (I'd removed that as hairy to get right).


r~