[issue46233] Minor speedup for bigint squaring

Change by Tim Peters : -- resolution: -> fixed stage: patch review -> resolved status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Py

[issue46233] Minor speedup for bigint squaring

Tim Peters added the comment: New changeset 3aa5242b54b0627293d95cfb4a26b2f917f667be by Tim Peters in branch 'main': bpo-46233: Minor speedup for bigint squaring (GH-30345) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/3aa5242b54b0627293d95cfb4a26b2f917f667be --

[issue46233] Minor speedup for bigint squaring

Change by Tim Peters : -- keywords: +patch pull_requests: +28557 stage: needs patch -> patch review pull_request: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/30345 ___ Python tracker __

[issue46233] Minor speedup for bigint squaring

New submission from Tim Peters : longobject.c's x_mul()'s special code for squaring gets kind of sloppy at the end of a digit pass, doing a useless add of 0 and an "extra" test for carry. Easily cleaned up. I think the underlying cause is that the HAC algorithm description it was modeled on