std::pow implementation

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar) writes:

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| Basically in Ada, we regard pragma Inline as meaning: this function is pretty
| small and I call it quite often and I would like the calls to be efficient.

That is not too far from the intent of inline in C++.

| Feel free to optimize in a way that improves time performance even if more
| space is generated. I am guessing that it would make sense to inline calls
| (I know the standard doesn't formally define this, but you know what I mean).

Yes, the standard does not legislate, but we know how and why the
language evolved to introduce that feature.

-- Gaby