RFR: 8355719: Reduce memory consumption of BigInteger.pow() [v54]

[Raffaello Giulietti]

On Thu, 8 May 2025 15:33:17 GMT, fabioromano1 <duke at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> This PR optimizes `BigInteger.pow(int)` method. The primary enhancement in `pow()` is not concerned most on execution time, but rather in memory optimization, because the PR implementation does the "shift of the exponent" squaring the result rather than the base, so the base is not squared like in the current implementation, and this permits to save about half of the memory.
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> fabioromano1 has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
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>   Suggested changes

Please update the 2nd copyright year in `BigInteger`.

Otherwise looks good.
As soon as you as you feel comfortable with your changes, let me know so that I can approve.

Thanks for yet another nice contribution!

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/24690#issuecomment-2863533055