std::pow implementation

[Steven Bosscher]

Op di 29-07-2003, om 16:17 schreef Gabriel Dos Reis:
> Steven Bosscher <s.bosscher@student.tudelft.nl> writes:
> | 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.

Well how do you suggest we make the compiler to its job better then? 
It's easy to say it's not all great now, but then you also have to come
up with ideas.

Gr.
Steven