Powers too slow?

[Ilya Zakharevich <nospam-abuse@ilyaz.org>]

It seems that some powers take 2x the time they should take:

  (18:31) gp > localprec(1111111); 1111111^(31/10);
  time = 453 ms.
  (18:31) gp > localprec(1111111); 1111111.^(1/10)*1111111^3;
  time = 234 ms.

I can see that negative powers are also candidates for improvement:

  (18:33) gp > localprec(1111111); 1111111.^(-1/10)*1111111^3;
  time = 312 ms.

(And this is still a bit slower than with 1/1111111.^(1/10).)

  (Needless to say that these are orders of magnitude quicker than
   1111111.^0.1.)

Thanks,
Ilya