RFR: 8264945: Optimize the code-gen for Math.pow(x, 0.5) [v2]

[Andrew Haley]

On Wed, 21 Apr 2021 09:10:08 GMT, Jie Fu <jiefu at openjdk.org> wrote:

> 
> Actually, this optimization has been long used for Java.
> And we don't see any problems of it, right?
> So I don't think it will cause problems in the future.
> 
> What do you think of the same optimization in the HotSpot which has been applied more than 10 years ago?
> https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/blob/master/src/hotspot/share/runtime/sharedRuntimeTrans.cpp#L499
> 
> And also the same optimization in the Java lib?

OK, fair enough. I still don't know if this optimization is safe, but I guess (?) the analysis was done at the time. In any case, given that this optimization is already done elsewhere, your patch won't make anything any worse.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/3404