[issue12080] decimal.py: performance in _power_exact
Stefan Krah
report at bugs.python.org
Sun May 15 10:28:22 CEST 2011
New submission from Stefan Krah <stefan-usenet at bytereef.org>:
I found another performance issue in _power_exact:
>>> Decimal(4) ** Decimal("-1.2e-999999999")
^CTraceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "/home/stefan/pydev/cpython/Lib/decimal.py", line 2343, in __pow__
ans = self._power_exact(other, context.prec + 1)
File "/home/stefan/pydev/cpython/Lib/decimal.py", line 2098, in _power_exact
ten_pow = 10**-ye
KeyboardInterrupt
This one is in the power operation in line 2098. There are several
other places where huge integer powers are calculated if 'ye' is
sufficiently large.
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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 136022
nosy: mark.dickinson, skrah
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: decimal.py: performance in _power_exact
type: performance
versions: Python 3.3, Python 3.4
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