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Re: [PATCH] Optimize x*x*x*x*x*x using 3 multiplications.

On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 12:35:08PM -0600, Roger Sayle wrote:
> An even
> better solution would be to provide a __builtin_powi function directly
> that is always guaranteed to expanded inline, independently of -Os and
> -ffast-math, and that expands to a loop (that can be unrolled!) even
> when the second argument isn't constant.

Ooooh.  I like that idea.  I might even try implementing that one.


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