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

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

Reviewed-by: kvn, phh

Summary: Code in interp_masm, stubGenerator, c1_LIRAssembler, and AD files moved into MacroAssembler.
Reviewed-by: kvn

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: minor assembler enhancements preparing for method handles
Reviewed-by: kvn

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

Summary: There are two typos in andL_rReg_imm instructions in x86_64.ad.
Reviewed-by: 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

Reviewed-by: kvn, rasbold

Summary: add match rule for xor -1
Reviewed-by: never, kvn

6459804: Want client (c1) compiler for x86_64 (amd64) for faster start-up
Reviewed-by: kvn

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

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

Summary: Generate addresses and implicit null checks with narrow oops to avoid decoding.
Reviewed-by: jrose, 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: Transform long division by constant into multiply
Reviewed-by: never, kvn

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: Use CVTDQ2PS and CVTDQ2PD for integer values conversions to float and double values on new AMD cpu.
Reviewed-by: sgoldman, never