Hi Geir, The 1.5 spec includes an Enum which is used in BigDecimal. But we surely can compile to 1.4 bytecode the part of the implementation that corresponds to the 1.4 API.
Regards, Daniel Fridlender On 4/21/06, Geir Magnusson Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Daniel Fridlender wrote: > > Dear all, > > > > on behalf of ITC I have updated our contribution of the package > > java.math including some recent optimizations (HARMONY-199). I think > > it would be interesting to compare our implementation with the one > > donated by Intel (HARMONY-39). In order to do that, it would be nice > > to have a collection of applications were the package is used. > > > > So far, we have tried both implementations with a realistic > > application (RSA key generation) and our implementation turned out to > > have a significantly better performance. > > Nice! Performance is good! > > > > > Another point is that we implemented the full 1.5 API functionality, > > which in the case of BigDecimal amounts to having about twice as many > > methods as in the 1.4.2 API. This may have little significance now, > > but it will definitely be important when Harmony moves to 1.5 > > > > Our implementation uses 1.5 syntax since the 1.5 API includes an Enum > > (RoundingMode). > > It should be easy to obtain a 1.4.2 implementation of the 1.4.2 API from it. > > Great - can we compile down to 1.4 bytecode? > > geir > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Terms of use : http://incubator.apache.org/harmony/mailing.html > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- Terms of use : http://incubator.apache.org/harmony/mailing.html To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
