From 06f53134801f972a8a43187b6534f14c94d324fc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Lemire Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2020 09:30:00 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Update README.md --- README.md | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index feec983..75cbebd 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -68,11 +68,11 @@ We support Visual Studio, macOS, Linux, freeBSD. We support big and little endia ## Relation With Other Work -The fast_float library provides a performance similar to that of the [fast_double_parser](https://github.com/lemire/fast_double_parser) library but using an novel algorithm reworked from the ground up, and while offering an API more in line with the expectations of C++ programmers. +The fast_float library provides a performance similar to that of the [fast_double_parser](https://github.com/lemire/fast_double_parser) library but using an updated algorithm reworked from the ground up, and while offering an API more in line with the expectations of C++ programmers. The fast_double_parser library is part of the [Microsoft LightGBM machine-learning framework](https://github.com/microsoft/LightGBM). ## Users -This library is used by [Apache Arrow](https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/8494) where it multiplied the number parsing speed by two or three times. +The fast_float library is used by [Apache Arrow](https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/8494) where it multiplied the number parsing speed by two or three times. ## How fast is it?