RFR: 8299677: Formatter.format might take a long time to format an integer or floating-point [v4]

[Lance Andersen]

On Wed, 11 Jan 2023 19:34:39 GMT, Raffaello Giulietti <rgiulietti at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> This change transforms a O(n^2) path to O(n) when prepending zero padding to decimal outputs, where n is the length of the padding.
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> Raffaello Giulietti has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
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>   8299677: Formatter.format might take a long time to format an integer or floating-point

test/jdk/java/util/Formatter/Padding.java line 39:

> 37:     class BlankPaddingInt {
> 38: 
> 39:         @Test

Any thought given to using `@MethodSource:` in order to specify a DataProvider? The benefit would be you could catch each failure vs having to address or comment out the assertEquals that is failing

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/11939