RFR: 8355719: Reduce memory consumption of BigInteger.pow() [v40]

[fabioromano1]

On Mon, 28 Apr 2025 17:06:55 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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>>   Added tests for memory consumption
>
> Can you show the benchmark results before/after, perhaps specifying the characteristics of your machine (CPU make/model, RAM, OS)?

@rgiulietti As you can see, there is a significant saving in both execution time and memory consumption.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/24690#issuecomment-2838923045