2009/10/27 Alan Eliasen <elia...@mindspring.com>: > On 10/23/2009 11:01 AM, Andrew John Hughes wrote: >> >> 6622432 is the one of the ones I just pointed to i.e. it's in JDK7. >> If Alan has a further patch and hasn't even submitted it for >> inclusion, it's obviously not in. > > I had just queried Joe Darcy at Sun about reviewing my patches for > Karatsuba and Toom-Cook multiplication in BigInteger again last week. His > reply was: > > "Yes, I apologize again for the repeated delays; I want to get your > Karatsuba work reviewed and integrated within this JDK 7 milestone (the next > few weeks)." > > So I'm hopeful. So far, I haven't heard of any substantive issues with > the patches. They were mostly stylistic. > > As I've stated before, I also have patches that greatly improve the > performance of pow() and toString() (by orders of magnitude) that I have > been holding on to for a long time, and hoping to submit after the > multiplication patches are approved. (I was asked by Joe Darcy to submit in > smaller patches.) Hopefully these might get in JDK 7 too. > > -- > Alan Eliasen > elia...@mindspring.com > http://futureboy.us/ >
Alan, I presume this was in private e-mail. Why was it not just discussed on this list? For one thing, you wouldn't then have to reiterate the conversation! -- Andrew :-) Free Java Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. (http://www.redhat.com) Support Free Java! Contribute to GNU Classpath and the OpenJDK http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath http://openjdk.java.net PGP Key: 94EFD9D8 (http://subkeys.pgp.net) Fingerprint: F8EF F1EA 401E 2E60 15FA 7927 142C 2591 94EF D9D8
