Hi Robert, On Sep 15, 2014, at 2:09 AM, Robert Gibson <robbiexgib...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> How are the performance characteristics after the patch? I have not tested that aspect as yet but clearly it should be evaluated. Given that JDK-8057793 causes a violation of the specification of BigDecimal I thought it was important to check in the fix as-is without further delay. > I see that a lot of effort went in to tuning last December under 8029501. Yes, that was a fair bit of work. > By the way, as part of my investigations into this bug I noticed that > BigIntegerTest::divideLarge no longer tests the Burnikel-Ziegler part of the > division code, since the heuristic to decide Knuth or BZ diverged from the > algorithm to generate the test cases (as part of 8029501). I created https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8058505 for this problem. Thanks, Brian
