Final RFR 4837946: Faster multiplication and exponentiation of large integers

[Alan Bateman]

On 19/06/2013 01:13, Brian Burkhalter wrote:
> This RFR was initially posted last month:
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> 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
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> 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
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> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~bpb/4837946/
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> 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
It's great to have this ready to go, it feels that it is years since 
this was first brought up. I can sponsor it and help you get this pushed.

One question on the attribution (so that we have it right). In the 
Contributed-by line then you have Alan Eliasen listed but the @author 
tags have been extended to list Tim Buktu in addition to Alan. Is the 
patch from both Alan and Tim? I ask because I don't see Tim on the OCA list.

-Alan