RFR: JDK-8311009: Long.toUnsignedString(long, int) doesn't have to create a BigInteger [v2]

[Raffaello Giulietti]

On Wed, 28 Jun 2023 07:57:25 GMT, Tingjun Yuan <duke at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> This PR changes the implementation of `Long.toUnsignedString(long, int)` for "default" radices, which avoids creating a `BigInteger` and makes use of `Long.divideUnsigned` and `Long.remainderUnsigned`.
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>> I've run the test on `test/jdk/java/lang/Long/Unsigned.java` and it works correctly. I believe that there is no need to add more test cases.
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>> I've added a benchmark case to `test/micro/org/openjdk/bench/java/lang/Longs.java` for this method. Here is the benchmark result tested on my machine:
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>> Before (JDK 20.0.1):
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>> Benchmark                       (size)  Mode  Cnt     Score    Error  Units
>> Longs.toUnsignedStringNegative     500  avgt   15  6428.711 ± 63.142  us/op
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>> 
>> After:
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>> Benchmark                       (size)  Mode  Cnt     Score     Error  Units
>> Longs.toUnsignedStringNegative     500  avgt   15  3823.655 ± 146.171  us/op
>> 
>> 
>> No CSR needed since the behavior is not changed.
>
> Tingjun Yuan has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
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>   Update copyright year

I checked whether the method is ever searched for reflectively: this seems _not_ be the case in the JDK codebase. So I guess it can be removed from `Long.java`.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/14654#issuecomment-1610958354