JDK 8 RFC 4891331: BigInteger a.multiply(a) should use squaring code

Brian Burkhalter brian.burkhalter at oracle.com
Thu Oct 17 21:30:48 UTC 2013


A few corrections in-line …

On Oct 17, 2013, at 12:26 PM, Brian Burkhalter wrote:

> Testing on the Windows machine only also suggests that the sub-unity ratios for lengths under 256 bits is not due to the equality test, 

*are* not due to the equality test

> Note that the lengths of values used is much smaller than the Karatsuba thresholds

*are* much smaller

> [2] https://support.apple.com/kb/HT4132 [2.8 GHz]

Should have specified "MacBookPro,5.3" as well.

-B.


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