[cp-patches] FYI:HTML parser leading/trailing space fix

2006-09-03 Thread Audrius Meskauskas
Roman reported that the HTML parser eats too much whitespace: the sequence like text must be parsed preserving at most one leading and trailing space (now all are discarded). As this is an interpretation and not a programming bug, this patch may break existing HTML parser tests that require c

Re: Re: [cp-patches] RFC: PR Classpath/28664 - GNU MP based BigInteger (compressed)

2006-09-03 Thread Robert Lougher
Hi, Try commenting out the code in the function: setDoublePrecision() located in jamvm/src/os/linux/i386/init.c This changes the precision of the FPU to 64 bits from extended 80-bit precision which is the Linux default. This is necessary to completely conform to the Java specification. See htt

RE: [cp-patches] RFC: PR Classpath/28664 - GNU MP based BigInteger(compressed)

2006-09-03 Thread Jeroen Frijters
Raif S. Naffah wrote: > the attractiveness of the native code is performance. to > quickly see how the > new methods improve for example RSA key generation, one can > modify the code > in TestOfRSAKeyGeneration (Mauve) to call the generate() > method N times and > print the duration --on my

Re: [cp-patches] RFC: PR Classpath/28664 - GNU MP based BigInteger(compressed)

2006-09-03 Thread Raif S. Naffah
hello Sven, On Sunday 03 September 2006 19:46, Sven de Marothy wrote: > On Sun, 2006-09-03 at 10:02 +0200, Jeroen Frijters wrote: > > Raif S. Naffah wrote: > > > the attached patch adds support for GNU MP in BigInteger > > > if/when configured. > > > > How/why is the native version better? Is it r

Re: [cp-patches] RFC: PR Classpath/28664 - GNU MP based BigInteger(compressed)

2006-09-03 Thread Raif S. Naffah
hello Jeroen, On Sunday 03 September 2006 18:02, Jeroen Frijters wrote: > ... > How/why is the native version better? Is it really worthwhile to > complicate the code this way? Where are the benchmarks that prove the > native code is faster? the attractiveness of the native code is performance.

RE: [cp-patches] RFC: PR Classpath/28664 - GNU MP based BigInteger(compressed)

2006-09-03 Thread Sven de Marothy
On Sun, 2006-09-03 at 10:02 +0200, Jeroen Frijters wrote: > Raif S. Naffah wrote: > > the attached patch adds support for GNU MP in BigInteger > > if/when configured. > > How/why is the native version better? Is it really worthwhile to > complicate the code this way? Where are the benchmarks that

Re: [cp-patches] RFC: PR Classpath/28664 - GNU MP based BigInteger (compressed)

2006-09-03 Thread Raif S. Naffah
hello Robert, On Sunday 03 September 2006 15:26, Robert Lougher wrote: > Hi, > > What architecture were you running JamVM on? here is the uname related lines in my jamvm config.log: uname -m = i686 uname -r = 2.6.17-1.2174_FC5smp uname -s = Linux uname -v = #1 SMP Tue Aug 8 16:00:39 EDT 2006 c

RE: [cp-patches] RFC: PR Classpath/28664 - GNU MP based BigInteger(compressed)

2006-09-03 Thread Jeroen Frijters
Raif S. Naffah wrote: > the attached patch adds support for GNU MP in BigInteger > if/when configured. How/why is the native version better? Is it really worthwhile to complicate the code this way? Where are the benchmarks that prove the native code is faster? I assume it is already widely know