Summary: Don't align loops in stubs for Niagara sparc since NOPs are expensive.
Reviewed-by: twisti, never

Summary: Loop predication implementation
Reviewed-by: never, kvn

Summary: Make OptimizeStringConcat a product VM option(contributed by never)
Reviewed-by: never

Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: enable escape analysis by default
Reviewed-by: never

Summary: Used the outer loop frequency in frequencies checks in RA.
Reviewed-by: never, twisti

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

Summary: Add the missing check for CreateEx. Add new notproduct flag VerifyRegisterAllocator.
Reviewed-by: never

Summary: Removed lines in adm64.make with interpret.o and moved few constant strings from header files.
Reviewed-by: never

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

Summary: post-register allocation pass that drives block layout by edge frequencies
Reviewed-by: never, kvn

Summary: Switch off executing Escape Analysis by default for now
Reviewed-by: rasbold

Summary: Escape Analysis fixes.
Reviewed-by: never, rasbold

Summary: switch on EA by default, optimize Connection Graph construction
Reviewed-by: rasbold, never

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

Summary: The method Node::dominates loops in the dead code which does not have a Region node.
Reviewed-by: jrose, never

Summary: Current EA code has several problems which have to be fixed.
Reviewed-by: jrose, sgoldman

Reviewed-by: kvn, rasbold