Summary: x86 interpreter and c1 type profiling for arguments at calls
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: when possible optimize out array bound checks, inserting predicates when needed.
Reviewed-by: never, kvn, twisti
Contributed-by: Nthomaswue <thomas.wuerthinger@oracle.com>

Summary: missing test for loaded klass in c1
Reviewed-by: kvn

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>

Reviewed-by: kvn, roland, jrose

6984705: JSR 292 method handle creation should not go through JNI
Summary: remove assembly code for JDK 7 chained method handles
Reviewed-by: jrose, twisti, kvn, mhaupt
Contributed-by: NJohn Rose &lt;john.r.rose@oracle.com&gt;, Christian Thalinger &lt;christian.thalinger@oracle.com&gt;, Michael Haupt <michael.haupt@oracle.com>

Reviewed-by: never

Summary: the failure is caused by uninitialized bci number
Reviewed-by: iveresov

Summary: better static analysis. Take advantage of array copy stubs.
Reviewed-by: never

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

Summary: Ifop optimization for c1
Reviewed-by: never, phh, iveresov

Summary: Infrastructure for tiered compilation support (interpreter + c1 + c2) for 32 and 64 bit. Simple tiered policy implementation.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never, phh, twisti

Summary: Enable parallel compilation in C1
Reviewed-by: never, kvn

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

Summary: This implements JSR 292 support for C1 x86.
Reviewed-by: never, jrose, kvn

Summary: fixes an historical oddity in C1 with inlining where all of the expression stacks are kept in the topmost ValueStack instead of being in their respective ValueStacks.
Reviewed-by: never
Contributed-by: NChristian Wimmer <cwimmer@uci.edu>