Summary: These methods can be instrinsified by using bit scan, bit test, and population count instructions.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Summary: Don't perform CMOVE identity optimization for floating point types
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Summary: Use CodeCache buffer blob instead of static buffer in AdapterHandlerLibrary.
Reviewed-by: never

Summary: Restore the call to Bytecodes::java_code() in BytecodePrinter::print_attributes().
Reviewed-by: jrose

Reviewed-by: twisti

Summary: Relocate the stack pointer adjustment to where uncommon_trap is actually inserted for new_array.
Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose

6709742: find_base_for_derived's use of Ideal NULL is unsafe causing crashes during register allocation
Summary: Create a mach node corresponding to ideal node ConP #NULL specifically for derived pointers.
Reviewed-by: never

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

Summary: Making VirtualAlloc/VirtualProtect two calls for PAGE_EXECUTE_READWRITE doesn't work for MEM_LARGE_PAGES.
Reviewed-by: xlu, kvn, jcoomes

Summary: The Address class on SPARC currently handles both, addresses and address literals, what makes the Address class more complicated than it has to be.
Reviewed-by: never, kvn

Reviewed-by: kvn

Reviewed-by: kvn

Reviewed-by: kvn

Reviewed-by: kvn

Reviewed-by: rasbold, jrose, twisti

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

Summary: Asserts and comments to help maintain the correct sizing of certain stubs
Reviewed-by: kvn

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

6826960: C2 Sparc: assert(bb->_nodes(_bb_end)->is_Proj(),"skipping projections after expected call")
Summary: Add the check when a Halt node is placed in a separate block.
Reviewed-by: twisti

Summary: Remove usage of _highest_lock field in Thread so that is_lock_owned won't depend on the correct update of that field.
Reviewed-by: never, dice, acorn

Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Use a HaltNode on the fall through path of the AllocateArrayNode to indicate that it is unreachable if the array length is negative.
Reviewed-by: never, jrose

Reviewed-by: xlu, coleenp, kamg, swamyv

Summary: Support multiplex and mutable sun.boot.library.path
Reviewed-by: acorn, dcubed, xlu

Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose

Reviewed-by: jrose, phh, kvn

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

Summary: Tune C2 flags default values for performance.
Reviewed-by: never, phh, iveresov, jmasa, ysr

Summary: When using compressed oops, rather than chaining the overflowed grey objects' pre-images through their klass words, we use GC-worker thread-local overflow stacks.
Reviewed-by: jcoomes, jmasa

Summary: heapOopSize symbol should be declared as constant in vmStructs and should not be looked up in readVMIntConstants().
Reviewed-by: never, swamyv, coleenp

Summary: Add 2 news classes to create VC8 and VC9 projects
Reviewed-by: apetrusenko, xlu

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

Reviewed-by: kvn, phh

Summary: Make object_iterate() traverse the perm gen
Reviewed-by: apetrusenko, tonyp

Reviewed-by: iveresov, tonyp

Summary: Add executable parameters to reserve_memory and commit_memory to reduce executable memory to only the Code Heap.
Reviewed-by: xlu, kvn, acorn

Reviewed-by: xlu, mchung

Summary: Change create_vm() to load and initialize StringValue rather than String.
Reviewed-by: kvn

Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Fixed SuperWord scheduling of memory operations.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never