On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 7:48 PM, Tony Kelman <[email protected]> wrote: > > Expectations based on the way Octave/Matlab work are really not applicable > to a system that works completely differently. >
That said, we do want to make this faster – but we don't want to cheat to do it, and special casing small powers is kind of cheating. In this case it may be worth it, but what we'd really like is a more general kind of optimization here that has the same effect in this particular case.
