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

Reviewed-by: twisti

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

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

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

Summary: Use zero based compressed oops if java heap is below 32gb and unscaled compressed oops if java heap is below 4gb.
Reviewed-by: never, twisti, jcoomes, coleenp

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

Summary: I have collected some typos I have found while looking at the code.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

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

Summary: Add a match rule for regD_low in regD definition.
Reviewed-by: never

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

Reviewed-by: kvn, rasbold

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

Summary: Remove DecodeNNode::decode() and EncodePNode::encode() methods.
Reviewed-by: rasbold, never

Summary: exclude UEP size from nmethod code size and use narrow klass oop to load prototype header.
Reviewed-by: jrose, never

Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose

Summary: Use the gap also for a narrow oop field and a boxing object value.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, 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: fix several problems in C2 related to Escape Analysis and Compressed Oops.
Reviewed-by: never, jrose

Summary: 64-bits VM crashes with -XX:+AggresiveOpts (Escape Analysis + Compressed Oops)
Reviewed-by: never, sgoldman

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

Summary: incorrect encoding
Reviewed-by: kvn, rasbold, sgoldman, jrose