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r82646 | mark.dickinson | 2010-07-08 18:23:40 +0100 (Thu, 08 Jul 2010) | 1 line
In test_decimal, convert heuristic for skipping tests into an explicit skiplist.
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r82649 | mark.dickinson | 2010-07-08 20:03:34 +0100 (Thu, 08 Jul 2010) | 1 line
Fix a performance issue in Decimal.pow. Thanks Stefan Krah for finding this.
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r82650 | mark.dickinson | 2010-07-08 20:09:16 +0100 (Thu, 08 Jul 2010) | 1 line
Fix misplaced exactness check that was causing unnecessary work in Decimal.__pow__.
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Library
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+- Fix extreme speed issue in Decimal.pow when the base is an exact
+ power of 10 and the exponent is tiny (for example,
+ Decimal(10) ** Decimal('1e-999999999')).
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- Issue #9130: Fix validation of relative imports in parser module.
- Issue #9128: Fix validation of class decorators in parser module.