On Wed, 9 Nov 2022 14:27:26 GMT, Ferenc Rakoczi <d...@openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Xue-Lei Andrew Fan has updated the pull request with a new target base due 
>> to a merge or a rebase. The pull request now contains six commits:
>> 
>>  - Merge master
>>  - missed reduce
>>  - reduce if needed
>>  - add the key pair generation bench code
>>  - remove tabs
>>  - 8295010: EC limbs addition and subtraction limit
>
> The way I see it is this: as limbs are 64-bit wide, the only place where they 
> can possibly overflow (during the computations they are used for) is the 
> multiplication (including multiply by int and squaring). So I would first try 
> to change the mult() and square() methods only in IntegerPolynomialP256.java 
> (well, in the generator that creates it). 
>  (It would also be nice to add comments to the various carry/reduce methods 
> that explain what exactly they want to achieve -- although this is definitely 
> something that doesn't have to be in this change set.)
> I also think (agree with you) that the setReduced() method can be eliminated 
> if you reduce the multiplicands conditionally (if numAdds > maxAdds) before 
> the multiplication/squaring and unconditionally after it (this part is done 
> in the generated functions already). But that assumes you change all 
> subclasses of IntegerPolynomial that way (most conveniently in the 
> set[Product,Square]() methods).

@ferakocz Did you have further comments or concerns?  Please let me know if I'm 
on the right direction for the performance improvement.  Thanks!

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/10624

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