RFR: JDK-8323186: A faster algorithm for MutablebigInteger.divWord(long, int) [v3]

[fabioromano1]

On Mon, 22 Jan 2024 15:38:08 GMT, Raffaello Giulietti <rgiulietti at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> fabioromano1 has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
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>>   Removed trailing whitespaces
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> Sure. But the purpose of a test is not much to check the _current_ code but to protect against erroneous changes in the future. Without a test, a later modification might introduce an undetected regression.

@rgiulietti The method `MutablebigInteger.divWord(long, int)` is used for division of BigIntegers, and division of BigIntegers already has several tests. Anyway, in case we can use the same tests which already exist for  `Long.divideUnsigned(long, long)` and `Long.remainderUnsigned(long, long)`.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/17291#issuecomment-1904279676