Summary: bitCount() should use POPC on SPARC processors where POPC is implemented directly in hardware.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Summary: Add a LoadUB (unsigned byte) and LoadUI (unsigned int) opcode class so we have these load optimizations in the first place and do not need to handle them in the matcher.
Reviewed-by: never, kvn

Summary: Renaming LoadC to LoadUS would round up the planned introduction of LoadUB and LoadUI.
Reviewed-by: phh, kvn

Summary: Inline biased locking code in C2 ideal graph during macro nodes expansion
Reviewed-by: never

Summary: Update copyright year for files that have been modified in 2008
Reviewed-by: ohair, tbell

Summary: Intrinsify java/util/Arrays.equals(char[], char[])
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

6703890: Compressed Oops: add LoadNKlass node to generate narrow oops (32-bits) compare instructions
Summary: Add LoadNKlass and CMoveN nodes, use CmpN and ConN nodes to generate narrow oops compare instructions.
Reviewed-by: never, rasbold

Summary: Transform long division by constant into multiply
Reviewed-by: never, kvn

Summary: Compressed oops in instances, arrays, and headers. Code contributors are coleenp, phh, never, swamyv
Reviewed-by: jmasa, kamg, acorn, tbell, kvn, rasbold

6671807: (Escape Analysis) Add new ideal node to represent the state of a scalarized object at a safepoint
Summary: Values of non-static fields of a scalarized object should be saved in debug info to reallocate the object during deoptimization.
Reviewed-by: never