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Benchmark bug hunt reveals Python's 4,300-digit string limit

By Meridian48 News Desk · Summarised from DEV Community ·

A developer discovered their A2A benchmark stopped at N=22 because CPython 3.11's default int-to-string conversion cap (4,300 digits) crashed the Python agent on the 24th Mersenne prime (6,002 digits). Removing a decorative str() call restored the missing data point. The investigation also uncovered fragile regex parsing of LLM output and zero-value timing bugs in Rust.

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The story is a vivid reminder that silent defaults and dead code can quietly amputate benchmarks for months.
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