Final RFR 4837946: Faster multiplication and exponentiation of large integers

[Brian Burkhalter]

This RFR was initially posted last month:

http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/core-libs-dev/2013-May/016999.html

I hope that this is the final re-post. The issues in question are

http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4837946
http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4646474

and the webrev as before is at

http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~bpb/4837946/

The webrev has been updated to include the correlated JTREG test which was not included in the previous post of the webrev.

As previously mentioned, 4837946 and 7131192 touch some of the same code. I will update the webrev of whichever of these is not approved first to get the correct line numbers, but the review process should only nominally be affected as the actual code changes are disjoint.

Thanks,

Brian