Hi Raffaello, I can take a look. Did you write any (JMH?) microbenchmarks?
Thanks, Brian > On Sep 2, 2020, at 5:52 AM, Raffaello Giulietti > <raffaello.giulie...@gmail.com> wrote: > > here's a patch for [1], which is currently unassigned. Anybody willing to > sponsor it? > > The fix is based on "Hacker's Delight" (2nd ed), section 9.3 and makes use of > longs only, no BigInteger, no garbage to collect. It is faster and "greener" > than the current code. > > Contrary to the dramatic plea in the subject, with this fix I think there's > no pressing need for an intrinsic. > > The fix should be back-portable to 11 and 8, where the methods first > appeared, but I only tried on a current changeset [2]. > > Passes tier1. > > If anybody needs the fix as attachment, just let me know.
