[m-rev.] for review: avoid sprintf when converting integers to strings

[Zoltan Somogyi]

For review by Julien, since this is based on his changes,
specifically commit cd540da1f206ad3ee455574fb353f729f2d4b269,
and on his benchmarking at the time.

Zoltan.
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