Summary: Capitalize these metadata types (and objArrayKlass)
Reviewed-by: stefank, twisti, kvn

Summary: Deleted placement new operator of Node - node(size_t, Compile *, int).
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti
Contributed-by: bharadwaj.yadavalli@oracle.com

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: Increase vector size up to 256-bits for YMM AVX registers on x86.
Reviewed-by: never, twisti, roland

Summary: Add missing check for EncodeP node in MemNode::Ideal_common_DU_postCCP() method.
Reviewed-by: twisti

Summary: use shorter instruction sequences for atomic add and atomic exchange when possible.
Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose

Summary: Use !higher_equal() check to skip top and values which fit.
Reviewed-by: never

Summary: Add Value() methods to short and byte Load nodes to truncate constants which does not fit.
Reviewed-by: jrose

Summary: Compare uncasted object nodes.
Reviewed-by: never

Summary: adds store store barrier after initialization of header and body of objects.
Reviewed-by: never, kvn

Summary: Moved sizeof(klassOopDesc), changed the return type to ByteSize and removed the _in_bytes suffix.
Reviewed-by: never, bdelsart, coleenp, jrose

Summary: Delay memory node transformation until the memory is processed.
Reviewed-by: iveresov, never

Summary: Use dead nodes elimination code in PhaseIdealLoop before executing EA.
Reviewed-by: never, twisti

Summary: Don't zero new typeArray during runtime call if the allocation is followed by arraycopy into it.
Reviewed-by: twisti

Summary: Try to eliminate allocations and related locks immediately after escape analysis.
Reviewed-by: never

Reviewed-by: never

Summary: replace MemBarAcquire/MemBarRelease nodes on the monitor enter/exit code paths with new MemBarAcquireLock/MemBarReleaseLock nodes
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: memory slices should be always created for non-static fields after allocation
Reviewed-by: never

Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: StrIntrinsicNode::Ideal() should not optimize memory during Parse.
Reviewed-by: jrose, never

Summary: In Ideal() method of String intrinsics nodes look for TypeAryPtr::CHARS memory slice if memory is MergeMem. Do not unroll a loop with String intrinsics code.
Reviewed-by: never

Reviewed-by: never, coleenp, ysr, jwilhelm

Summary: copy small (<8) strings on stack if str+16 crosses a page boundary and load from stack into XMM. Back up pointer when loading string's tail.
Reviewed-by: never

Summary: The assert in MergeMemNode::memory_at() misses the case when address is TOP.
Reviewed-by: never

Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

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

Summary: Missing check for not empty worklist when puting memory node back on worklist and expecting address type update.
Reviewed-by: never

Reviewed-by: kvn

Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: check that raw loads have control edge
Reviewed-by: never, twisti

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

Summary: Add missing checks for MemBar nodes in EA.
Reviewed-by: never

Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: Always call C->get_alias_index(phase->type(address)) during parsing.
Reviewed-by: never

6875866: Intrinsic for String.indexOf() is broken on x86 with SSE4.2
Summary: Modify String intrinsic methods to pass char[] pointers instead of string oops.
Reviewed-by: never

6877254: Server vm crashes with no branches off of store slice" when run with CMS and UseSuperWord(default)
Summary: design StoreCMNode::Ideal to promote its oopStore input if the input is a MergeMem node
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

6711117: Assertion in 64bit server vm (flat != TypePtr::BOTTOM,"cannot alias-analyze an untyped ptr")
Summary: Delay a memory node transformation if its control or address on IGVN worklist.
Reviewed-by: never

Summary: Use SSE 4.2 in intrinsics for String.{compareTo/equals/indexOf} and Arrays.equals.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never, jrose

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

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