RFR: 8229845: Decrease memory consumption of BigInteger.toString()

Fri Nov 20 13:41:03 UTC 2020

On Fri, 23 Oct 2020 08:19:01 GMT, Claes Redestad <redestad at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Please review this proposed fix. The review was initially in this thread
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>> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/core-libs-dev/2019-August/061914.html
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>> under the old Hg SCM. The changes proposed here are derived from the final (.05) patch in the previous review which was posted in
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>> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/core-libs-dev/2019-August/062012.html.
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> LGTM.
> 
> A microbenchmark or something that summarizes the improvement and can verify that we don't regress on some variant would've been nice.

What's the hold-up on this?

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/819