Tim Peters added the comment: I'll revert the 2.7 change if people agree that's a good thing. I'm fine with it as-is. Armin pulled the idea from timing a Python public-key crypto project (see the original message in this report), where he found a 14% improvement.
I don't care if the trivial exponent == 0 case slows down - that's _truly_ unlikely ;-) The time spent special-casing it would marginally slow down other cases without good reason. For any exponent other than 0, reduction by the base must be done. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue19171> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
