Mark Dickinson added the comment: Victor: by "way too slow", I really *do* mean way too slow. :-)
floor_nroot does arithmetic with integers of bit-length approximately 54*n. For small n, that's fine, but if someone tried to take the geometric mean of a list of 50000 values (which it seems to me should be a perfectly reasonable use-case), floor_nroot would then be trying to do computations with multi-million-bit integers. The `a**(n-1)` operation in particular would be a killer for large `n`. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue27761> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
