Re:Announcing Rust 1.9
by tatterdemalion on Thursday May 26, 2016 @03:17PM
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Its an edge case for the `n` to get high enough for it make a big impact.
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And depending on the multiplying constant, it could mean everything is slower than before _until_ you reach a high enough n.
EDIT: The PR that added the change claims it was done well, though :) https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/32062