This is somewhat of followup to a conversation a few months ago [1] regarding the non-existence of a BigDecimal.valueOf(float) method. While it wasn't the primary issue, the matter of performance did come up. Based on that, I have been experimenting with making some improvements there.
I have a draft PR [2] open that leads to an improvement of around 6x for me. If there is interest in this change, I would need someone to open a JIRA for this. Thanks, Johannes [1] https://mail.openjdk.org/pipermail/core-libs-dev/2025-January/139074.html [2] https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/pull/25173
