JDK 9 RFR of JDK-8035279: Clean up internal deprecations in BigInteger

[Brian Burkhalter]

On Feb 26, 2014, at 1:53 PM, Paul Sandoz wrote:

>> Thanks for the suggestion, Paul. Assuming it is correct, in what way would this be a better approach? (I apologize for being obtuse.)
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> IMHO it is a simpler solution. It's a cache line that requires updating not the cache line*s*, as the current approach can potentially knock out cache lines for other radixes.
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>> If it looks worth doing, I'll file another issue to track the idea. I already have it on my list anyway to follow up on Alan Eliasen's comment in the BigInteger code:
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>>    * This could be changed to a more complicated caching method using
>>    * {@code Future}.
>>    */
>>   private static BigInteger getRadixConversionCache(int radix, int exponent) {
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> Not quite sure what that would entail.

I filed Yet Another Issue to keep track of this.

Thanks,

Brian