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@@ -31,13 +31,6 @@ Core and Builtins value: str(1e11 + 0.5). (This minor issue has existed in 2.x for a long time.) -- On x86, SSE2 instructions for floating-point are automatically - detected and, where possible, enabled on platforms using the gcc - compiler. As a consequence, some arithmetic operations may have - different (more accurate!) results on some platforms, and - cross-platform consistency of Python arithmetic should be improved. - This applies particularly to Linux/x86. - - Issue #1580: On most platforms, use a 'short' float repr: for a finite float x, repr(x) now outputs a string based on the shortest sequence of decimal digits that rounds to x. Previous behaviour was |