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Author mark.dickinson
Recipients Florian.Loitsch, amaury.forgeotdarc, djc, eric.smith, mark.dickinson, michael.foord, rhettinger, vstinner
Date 2011-09-18.17:16:02
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> It's biggest deficiency (compared to Gay's dtoa.c) is its specialization > to IEEE doubles.

We're only using the portion of Gay's code (with some significant modifications at this point) that applies to the IEEE 754 binary64 format, so I don't think this is a concern.
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2011-09-18 17:16:03mark.dickinsonsetrecipients: + mark.dickinson, rhettinger, amaury.forgeotdarc, vstinner, eric.smith, djc, michael.foord, Florian.Loitsch
2011-09-18 17:16:03mark.dickinsonsetmessageid: <1316366163.68.0.361934308665.issue12450@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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