RFR: 8355719: Reduce memory consumption of BigInteger.pow() [v49]

[Raffaello Giulietti]

On Wed, 7 May 2025 12:57:13 GMT, Chen Liang <liach at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> test/micro/org/openjdk/bench/java/math/BigIntegerPow.java line 72:
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>>> 70: 
>>> 71:         new Runner(opt).run();
>>> 72:     }
>> 
>> There's no need for these lines.
>
> These are here for convenience when a benchmark is run standalone. I think this has no harm.

There's no harm, but no need either.

We can add a comment like so, to clarify that the benchmark is here to measure memory allocations, rather than running time.

You can run this test via the command line:
    $ make test TEST="micro:java.math.BigIntegerPow" MICRO="OPTIONS=-prof gc"

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/24690#discussion_r2077590224