cdwillie76 wrote:
> I am looking to take a stab at this issue.  I noticed in JIRA, JScience was
> mentioned as an alternative.  Would that mean including the jar or just
> referencing the code for JScience.  I am in the process of getting the specs
> to run on my mac.
> 
> Thanks
> Chris

As I understand it the reference to JScience is as a wholesale upgrading
of jruby's current numeric layer. Quite a big job, but then JScience
does the work for us.

In this particular case you might want to try the less daunting route of
converting a BigInteger to double directly. I tried this, but the
current hack was still at least an order of magnitude faster than the
jdk version (!), so bit twiddling became less appealing. Javalution has
a toDoublePow2(long m, int n) function that would do most of the work, I
see.

btw I've added a quick fix to the issue.[1] I suggest adding further
comments there, and visit IRC if you want to chat.

Damian

[1] <http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/JRUBY-3331>

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