std::pow implementation

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

Steven Bosscher <s.bosscher@student.tudelft.nl> writes:

|               Did you know the RTL inliner also has inlining limits? 

Yes, I do.  So?

[...]

| performance, etc}.  For C++ this may sometimes mean an abstraction
| penalty (which we hope to minimize with the tree optimizers, right?),
| but in most cases it works just fine.

"Abstraction penalty" is an oxymoron, invented to excuse the compiler
for not doing its job.

-- Gaby