8318476: Add resource consumption note to BigInteger and BigDecimal

Reviewed-by: alanb, bpb

Author: jddarcy

src/java.base/share/classes/java/math/BigDecimal.java

@@ -279,7 +279,7 @@
  * operations indicated by {@linkplain RoundingMode rounding modes}
  * are a proper superset of the IEEE 754 rounding-direction
  * attributes.
-
+ *
  * <p>{@code BigDecimal} arithmetic will most resemble IEEE 754
  * decimal arithmetic if a {@code MathContext} corresponding to an
  * IEEE 754 decimal format, such as {@linkplain MathContext#DECIMAL64
@@ -292,6 +292,27 @@
  * such as dividing by zero, throw an {@code ArithmeticException} in
  * {@code BigDecimal} arithmetic.
  *
+ * <h2><a id=algorithmicComplexity>Algorithmic Complexity</a></h2>
+ *
+ * Operations on {@code BigDecimal} values have a range of algorithmic
+ * complexities; in general, those complexities are a function of both
+ * the size of the unscaled value as well as the size of the
+ * scale. For example, an {@linkplain BigDecimal#multiply(BigDecimal)
+ * exact multiply} of two {@code BigDecimal} values is subject to the
+ * same {@linkplain BigInteger##algorithmicComplexity complexity
+ * constraints} as {@code BigInteger} multiply of the unscaled
+ * values. In contrast, a {@code BigDecimal} value with a compact
+ * representation like {@code new BigDecimal(1E-1000000000)} has a
+ * {@link toPlainString} result with over one billion characters.
+ *
+ * <p>Operations may also allocate and compute on intermediate
+ * results, potentially those allocations may be as large as in
+ * proportion to the running time of the algorithm.
+ *
+ * <p>Users of {@code BigDecimal} concerned with bounding the running
+ * time or space of operations can screen out {@code BigDecimal}
+ * values with unscaled values or scales above a chosen magnitude.
+ *
  * @see     BigInteger
  * @see     MathContext
  * @see     RoundingMode

src/java.base/share/classes/java/math/BigInteger.java

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright (c) 1996, 2022, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
+ * Copyright (c) 1996, 2023, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
  * DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER.
  *
  * This code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
@@ -118,6 +118,42 @@
  * the full supported positive range of {@code BigInteger}.
  * The range must be at least 1 to 2<sup>500000000</sup>.
  *
+ * @apiNote
+ * <a id=algorithmicComplexity>As {@code BigInteger} values are
+ * arbitrary precision integers, the algorithmic complexity of the
+ * methods of this class varies and may be superlinear in the size of
+ * the input. For example, a method like {@link intValue()} would be
+ * expected to run in <i>O</i>(1), that is constant time, since with
+ * the current internal representation only a fixed-size component of
+ * the {@code BigInteger} needs to be accessed to perform the
+ * conversion to {@code int}. In contrast, a method like {@link not()}
+ * would be expected to run in <i>O</i>(<i>n</i>) time where <i>n</i>
+ * is the size of the {@code BigInteger} in bits, that is, to run in
+ * time proportional to the size of the input. For multiplying two
+ * {@code BigInteger} values of size <i>n</i>, a naive multiplication
+ * algorithm would run in time <i>O</i>(<i>n<sup>2</sup></i>) and
+ * theoretical results indicate a multiplication algorithm for numbers
+ * using this category of representation must run in <em>at least</em>
+ * <i>O</i>(<i>n</i>&nbsp;log&nbsp;<i>n</i>). Common multiplication
+ * algorithms between the bounds of the naive and theoretical cases
+ * include the Karatsuba multiplication
+ * (<i>O</i>(<i>n<sup>1.585</sup></i>)) and 3-way Toom-Cook
+ * multiplication (<i>O</i>(<i>n<sup>1.465</sup></i>)).</a>
+ *
+ * <p>A particular implementation of {@link multiply(BigInteger)
+ * multiply} is free to switch between different algorithms for
+ * different inputs, such as to improve actual running time to produce
+ * the product by using simpler algorithms for smaller inputs even if
+ * the simpler algorithm has a larger asymptotic complexity.
+ *
+ * <p>Operations may also allocate and compute on intermediate
+ * results, potentially those allocations may be as large as in
+ * proportion to the running time of the algorithm.
+ *
+ * <p>Users of {@code BigInteger} concerned with bounding the running
+ * time or space of operations can screen out {@code BigInteger}
+ * values above a chosen magnitude.
+ *
  * @implNote
  * In the reference implementation, BigInteger constructors and
  * operations throw {@code ArithmeticException} when the result is out