On Tue, 29 Apr 2025 15:10:10 GMT, fabioromano1 <d...@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. > > fabioromano1 has updated the pull request incrementally with two additional > commits since the last revision: > > - Adjust the type of operand > - Use a more loose formula to do range check > > Use a more loose formula to do range check, in order not to exclude a > priori values that may be inside the supported range A thought for a future PR - computing long powers could be useful as a public method as well. ------------- PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/24690#issuecomment-2839942516
