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Re: BigInteger.modInverse() fix
Per Bothner wrote:
Of course I'm even more concerned about the serialization
causing all the wasted extra fields. I wish somebody who
has a vague idea of the serialization protocol could just
fix this. Just replace the otherwise-unused fields with
local variables in readObject/writeObject, and replace the
calls to defaultReadObject and defaultWriteObject, with calls
to write those variables.
It's kind of embarassing, because my name is on the class.
The code I wrote I tried to make efficient and (within reason)
avoid needless work and object allocation, while code that
other have added (necessary to implement the BigInteger
specification) some of it is so horribly inefficient.
Adding all those extra fields just for serialization
destroyed the whole point of my design.
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--Per Bothner
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