Summary: Allocate the method's profiling related metadata until they are needed.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, roland

Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Remove PermGen, allocate meta-data in metaspace linked to class loaders, rewrite GC walking, rewrite and rename metadata to be C++ classes
Reviewed-by: jmasa, stefank, never, coleenp, kvn, brutisso, mgerdin, dholmes, jrose, twisti, roland
Contributed-by: Njmasa &lt;jon.masamitsu@oracle.com&gt;, stefank &lt;stefan.karlsson@oracle.com&gt;, mgerdin &lt;mikael.gerdin@oracle.com&gt;, never <tom.rodriguez@oracle.com>

Summary: Eliminate constMethod's _method backpointer to methodOop, and move the _constant field from methodOop to constMethod.
Reviewed-by: roland, bdelsart, kamg

Reviewed-by: kvn, never, bdelsart

Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: Replaced MakeDeps and the includeDB files with more standardized solutions.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, kvn, kamg

Summary: Infrastructure for tiered compilation support (interpreter + c1 + c2) for 32 and 64 bit. Simple tiered policy implementation.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never, phh, twisti

Summary: Change all the Sun copyrights to Oracle copyright
Reviewed-by: ohair

Summary: Factored cleanup of instruction decode which prepares for enhanced ldc semantics.
Reviewed-by: twisti

Reviewed-by: coleenp, never, gbenson

Summary: Fix incorrect marking of methods as not compilable.
Reviewed-by: never

Summary: invokedynamic instruction (JSR 292 RI)
Reviewed-by: twisti, never

Summary: initial implementation, with known omissions (x86/64, sparc, compiler optim., c-oops, C++ interp.)
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti, never

Summary: Update copyright for files that have been modified in 2009, up to 03/09
Reviewed-by: katleman, tbell, ohair

6787106: Hotspot 32 bit build fails on platforms having different definitions for intptr_t & int32_t
Summary: Avoid casting between int32_t and intptr_t specifically for MasmAssembler::movptr in 32 bit platforms.
Reviewed-by: jrose, kvn

Summary: Update for files that have been modified starting July 2008
Reviewed-by: ohair, tbell

6459804: Want client (c1) compiler for x86_64 (amd64) for faster start-up
Reviewed-by: kvn