Tim Peters added the comment: > Anyway, if we modify random.py, the generated > numbers should be different, no?
Not in a bugfix release. The `min()` trick changes no results whatsoever on a box that doesn't do double-rounding. On a box that does do double-rounding, the only difference in results is that the `min()` trick stops a nasty exception in a relative handful of cases (& makes no difference to any case in which that exception isn't raised). The sequence of results may be different on platforms with double-rounding and without double-rounding, but that's always been true. The `min()` trick changes nothing about that either, except to prevent unintended exceptions on double-rounding boxes. Note that switching to use SSE2 instead also changes nothing on boxes that don't do double-rounding. It would change some results (beyond _just_ stopping bogus exceptions) on boxes that do double-rounding. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue24567> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
