Hi all, I've been giving a thought about this and I think we could reach the compromise of having a single function with 2 overloads: * pow(double, double) -> double: Uses C pow(). * pow(int, int) -> double: Uses ipow() for positive exponents, and pow() for negative exponents.
In both cases we'd return a double but we use the fast ipow if it's possible (which can be 20x faster), so at the cost of an extra cast if you need an int, we'd have a consistent API. Would this be acceptable?
