Deploy a Decimal FP co-processor with openJDK, is it possible?

[Volker Simonis]

As a starting point, you can have a look at the webrev for:

6622432: RFE: Performance improvements to java.math.BigDecimal
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/hotspot-dev/2009-February/001226.html

which is a performance improvement for BigDecimal. This implies that
the BigDecimal implementation is in the OpenJDK.

In order to gain full advantage of your FP-coporocessor, you would
probably have to natively reimplement or intrinsify some of the
methods of BigDecimal. This will however probably only pay off for big
numbers.

Regards,
Volker


On 3/23/09, tarekeldeeb <tarekeldeeb at msn.com> wrote:
>
>  Hello community,
>
>  I work for SilMinds; a company that provides Decimal floating point IP
>  cores. We are currently building up a pilot application for our customers as
>  well. Our decimal floating point unit is compliant with IEEE 754-2008
>  standard. Executing decimal arithmetic routines on hardware shows a
>  delay-energy boost of 500X.
>
>  I want to patch the openJDK so that all Decimal data types are executed on
>  my hardware co-processor. Java applications shall be accelerated without
>  recoding or even re-compiling.
>
>   I have some basic questions:
>
>  1- What are all decimal datatypes? java.math.BigDecimal ? other string
>  representations ?
>  2- Is there any java conversion functions to be IEEE 754-2008 compliant?
>  3- I know that not all the JDK is open, is this correct? Is the arithmetic
>  part -including the BigDecimal- open ?
>  4- What documents shall I start with to override the default arithmetic
>  routines and deploy my hardware ?
>  5- Do you have any personal hints or suggestions towards what I had said ?
>
>  I appreciate any clues or information.
>
>  Thanks in advance,
>
>  Tarek
>
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