Name: bb33257 Date: 10/19/98


NumberFormat is much slower than it needs to be.
Just the following prototype change to DigitList.set speeds up
formatting of longs by about 4 times.

ublic final void set(long source, int maximumDigits)
{
    // later, make digits relative to 0, not '0'
    if (source <= 0) {
        // FIX put in special check for MIN_VALUE, just copying in pre-made static array
        digits[0] = 0;
        count = 1;
        decimalAt = 0;
    } else {
        int last = MAX_COUNT;
     while (source > 0) {
     digits[--last] = (byte)(0x30L + (source % 10));
     source = source / 10;
     }
     decimalAt = MAX_COUNT-last;
     // Don't copy trailing zeros
     int i;
     // we are guaranteed that there is at least one non-zero digit,
     // so we don't have to check lower bounds
     for (i = MAX_COUNT - 1; digits[i] == 0; --i) {
     }
     count = i - last + 1;
     System.arraycopy(digits, last, digits, 0, count);
}
    if (maximumDigits > 0) round(maximumDigits);
}
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