On Tue, 08 Oct 2019, Rasmus Villemoes wrote:
> For a fixed small exponent of 3, it is more efficient to simply use
> two explicit multiplications rather than calling the int_pow() library
> function: Aside from the function call overhead, its implementation
> using repeated squaring means it ends
For a fixed small exponent of 3, it is more efficient to simply use
two explicit multiplications rather than calling the int_pow() library
function: Aside from the function call overhead, its implementation
using repeated squaring means it ends up doing four 64x64
multiplications.
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