RFR: 8205592: BigDecimal.doubleValue() is depressingly slow

[Julian Waters]

On Thu, 7 Jul 2022 15:20:32 GMT, Raffaello Giulietti <duke at openjdk.org> wrote:

> A reimplementation of `BigDecimal.[double|float]Value()` to enhance performance, avoiding an intermediate string and its subsequent parsing on the slow path.

Impressive performance improvements, I also like the PR title :P

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/9410