From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me
X-Spam-Level: 
X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham
	autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4
X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit
X-Google-Thread: 103376,587583eece659d7a
X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public
X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-03-17 08:31:57 PST
Path: 
 archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!feed2.news.rcn.net!rcn!wn14eed!worldnet.att.net!204.127.198.203!attbi_feed3!attbi.com!rwcrnsc53.POSTED!not-for-mail
From: "Steve Doiel" <nospam_steved94@attbi.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
References: <3C93A19C.67D6E442@t-online.de> <3C93ABC4.C27E9D5F@free.fr>
Subject: Re: Why raises this an error? :-(
X-Priority: 3
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200
X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200
Message-ID: <0y3l8.56686$af7.41323@rwcrnsc53>
NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.225.227.101
X-Complaints-To: abuse@attbi.com
X-Trace: rwcrnsc53 1016382716 12.225.227.101 (Sun, 17 Mar 2002 16:31:56 GMT)
NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2002 16:31:56 GMT
Organization: AT&T Broadband
Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2002 16:31:56 GMT
Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:21370
Date: 2002-03-17T16:31:56+00:00
List-Id: <comp.lang.ada>


"Damien Carbonne" <damien.carbonne@free.fr> wrote in message
news:3C93ABC4.C27E9D5F@free.fr...
[snip]
> Anyway, if what you need is the squarre value of a number, I think a
simple
> multiplication is much faster than a general exponentiation algorithm.
>

In general I think it's better to let the compiler make that decision.

SteveD

> Regards
>
> Damien carbonne
>