[issue9980] str(float) failure

[Eric Smith]

Eric Smith <eric at trueblade.com> added the comment:

I agree that in an ideal world there would not be a dependency on global flags.

There's no doubt a performance issue with doing so, although someone would have to measure that. It may well be swamped by the memory allocation, etc. that is going on at the same time and so won't matter.

Mark will no doubt know this better than I do, but I also assume that there's an issue with thread safety when changing such global state.

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