backport bigdecimal scaling and hexdump
Merge branch 'develop' into develop-1.7.11
Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/develop' into develop-1.7.12
Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/develop-1.7.12' into develop-1.8.0
Merge branch 'develop-1.8.0' into develop-2.0.0
adding JMH microbenchmarks. Provide alternate class lookup