On 10/09/2013 11:36 AM, Paul Sandoz wrote:
On Oct 9, 2013, at 3:56 AM, Joe Darcy <[email protected]> wrote:Hello, Please review the patch below which addresses JDK-8024354 Explicitly permit DoubleStream.sum()/average() implementations to use higher precision summation Thanks,The note feels more like an api note since it leaves me wondering what does the current implementation does. Presumably we should mention that current impl does do not do anything special?
The goal here is to explicitly allow (but not require) better-than-straightforard summation algorithms to be used.
Time permitting, I'd prefer to get a better implementation pushed before JDK 8 GA and, failing that, in an 8 update before JDK 9.
-Joe
