28897, "bradcray", "Consider implementing '**' using 'pown()'", "2026-05-27T20:50:19Z"
As @damianmoz noted in [Feature Request]: exponentiation in param · Issue #28718 · chapel-lang/chapel · GitHub , our ** operator may could yield better results for Chapel's real numbers if implemented with the IEEE 754 pown(), routine, which is not yet generally available, rather than pow() which we use today. This issue is intended to serve as a placeholder to look into using it in the future, either once it becomes widely available, or potentially incrementally, in cases where it becomes available.
I'm marking this as "compiler" in addition to "libraries/modules" since the compiler calls these routines on param values as of #28784