Issue #12080: Fix a performance issue in Decimal._power_exact that caused some corner-case Decimal.__pow__ calls to take an unreasonably long time.
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Library
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+- Issue #12080: Fix a performance issue in Decimal._power_exact that caused
+ some corner-case Decimal.__pow__ calls to take an unreasonably long time.
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- Named tuples now work correctly with vars().
- sys.setcheckinterval() now updates the current ticker count as well as updating