[issue1580] Use shorter float repr when possible

[Raymond Hettinger]

Raymond Hettinger <rhettinger at users.sourceforge.net> added the comment:

Is there a way to use SSE when available and x86 when it's not.  IIRC,
floating point used to work that way (using a C lib as a fallback on
systems w/o coprocessor support).

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