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erl: improve performance of string.inspect for floats #950

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erl: improve performance of `string.inspect` for floats
ankddev Sep 17, 2026
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2 changes: 2 additions & 0 deletions CHANGELOG.md
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print NaN and Infinity.
- The performance of the `to_string` function from the `float` module has been
improved on the Erlang target.
- The performance of the `inspect` function from the `string` module for floats
has been improved on the Erlang target.

## v1.0.5 - 2026-08-06

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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion src/gleam_stdlib.erl
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Expand Up @@ -285,7 +285,7 @@ inspect(Atom) when is_atom(Atom) ->
inspect(Any) when is_integer(Any) ->
erlang:integer_to_list(Any);
inspect(Any) when is_float(Any) ->
io_lib_format:fwrite_g(Any);
erlang:float_to_binary(Any, [short]);
inspect(Binary) when is_binary(Binary) ->
case inspect_maybe_utf8_string(Binary, <<>>) of
{ok, InspectedUtf8String} -> InspectedUtf8String;
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