Hi, I have updated the patch. It now contains Alan Eliasen's fast square() and pow() implementations. Special characters have been replaced with ASCII ones.
Also included is a patched MutableBigInteger which uses the fast division algorithm in BigInteger, and a patched BigDecimal which uses the fast BigInteger.pow() method. Both changes speed up BigDecimal division. BigDecimal division is still much slower than BigInteger division (except BigDecimal.divideAndRound) because it calls doRound(), setScale(), and bigMultiplyPowerTen() which are pretty slow. Maybe these methods can be made more efficient. To view the four patched files (#4 is BigIntegerTest.java) on one page, go to https://gist.github.com/tbuktu/1576025 , or get them individually at https://gist.github.com/tbuktu/1576025/raw/96e9dfd9261862223aa9ff81618f1d85045e85a5/BigInteger.java https://gist.github.com/tbuktu/1576025/raw/447db955ef74b065b03b0b45abd443cea5d7b2c6/MutableBigInteger.java https://gist.github.com/tbuktu/1576025/raw/6863a38032835b48b73cbce5aa833680c881557f/BigDecimal.java https://gist.github.com/tbuktu/1576025/raw/11977be7d001e093baa915b4370f326e30218eec/BigIntegerTest.java Semi-related: I think there is a bug in jdk/test/java/math/BigInteger/CompareToTests.java and jdk/test/java/math/BigDecimal/CompareToTests.java. It prints failures (with or without my patches) but the overall test doesn't fail. Tim
