RFR: 8365832: Refactor FloatingDecimal

[Shaojin Wen]

On Thu, 12 Jun 2025 23:54:10 GMT, Shaojin Wen <swen at openjdk.org> wrote:

>>> @wenshao How about extracting a new PR from this that only deals with removing the unused code?
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>> Yes, but I will wait until after June 5th so that it does not affect the release of JDK 25.
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>> @wenshao I'm working on a general overhaul of FloatingDecimal and related classes in some current and future PRs.
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>> If you could restrict your changes to just DigitList, that would be less interference with my work.
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> @rgiulietti  Sorry, I was traveling last week and I just saw your comment now. This is a draft pull request, you can move on with your plans and ignore it.

> @wenshao Curiously, there are now some people (you, @j3graham and myself) which are working on FloatingDecimal and related classes.

In PR #23310, @j3graham 's comment on January 25 mentioned FloatingDecimal, so I paid attention to this class

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/23311#issuecomment-2972264952