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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.
+
 - Named tuples now work correctly with vars().
 
 - sys.setcheckinterval() now updates the current ticker count as well as updating