RFR: 8355719: Reduce memory consumption of BigInteger.pow() [v55]

[Raffaello Giulietti]

On Thu, 8 May 2025 16:48:40 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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>   Code simplification

Good.

Let's give another 24 hours for people around the globe to chime in for last minute comments.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/24690#issuecomment-2863949199