It's still not as efficient since you're breaking on base 10 digit boundaries, not base 2, the most efficient encoding will be base 3, but alas we don't have ternary computers.
But it's a much more compact than that glibc monstrosity is. Sure, the glibc version will win in a micro-benchmark, but micro-benchmarks don't capture the effect on the instruction cache.
Using a decimal expansion adds 25% overhead from pure maths. Your cache will be larger if you're working in base ten regardless of what optimizations your compiler does.
