On Thu, 18 Nov 2021 07:26:45 GMT, David Holmes <dhol...@openjdk.org> wrote:
> To add my 2c IMO a parallel version of this type absolutely **must** be > opt-in. There are simply far too many side-effects of using the FJP and > multiple threads to perform the calculation in parallel as if it is just a > minor implementation detail. A clear API is 1000x better than a "kill switch". > > And yes you may still need to expose some kind of tuning knob. > > David Yes, it **must** be opt-in. However I'm not sure that a tuning knob will be necessary. BigInteger has thresholds for using different multiply algorithms and these are also not configurable. ------------- PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/6409