Re: Int->String formatting method
"Thomas Weidenfeller" <nobody@ericsson.invalid> wrote in message
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Deniz Dogan wrote:
I considered using the modulo operator, but I wasn't sure how the JVM
would implement it. I figured it would just do a lot of division
operations until it couldn't divide it any more, but perhaps it
implements it in a different manner?
That would be an extremely brain-dead thing to do. Sun programmers do a
lot of strange and stupid things in the JDK, but I can't imagine they
would do such a brain-dead modulo operator in the VM. They probably use
the C modulo operator which is probably translated into a modulo assembler
instruction - if the particular CPU provides such an instruction. Or it is
translated into a call into some assembler library - if an old CPU doesn't
provide such an assembler instruction or one that doesn't fit the JLS
modulo definition.
I think that modern x86 Intel and AMD chips have a built in modulo
operator. For CPUs which don't have modulo, you could implement it like
this:
C = A % B
temp = A / B
temp = B * A
C = A - temp
So worst case, an integer modulo would take up 3 "normal" integer
operations worth of time. The usage of "temp" implies an extra register, but
"temp" and "C" could use the same register.
- Oliver
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