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

Fri Oct 23 08:21:35 UTC 2020

On Thu, 22 Oct 2020 20:56:44 GMT, Brian Burkhalter <bpb at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Please review this proposed fix. The review was initially in this thread
> 
> 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
> 
> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/core-libs-dev/2019-August/062012.html.

LGTM.

A microbenchmark or something that summarizes the improvement and can verify that we don't regress on some variant would've been nice.

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Marked as reviewed by redestad (Reviewer).

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