Summary: Poke String.stringCacheEnabled during vm initialization
Reviewed-by: never

Summary: guard AryEqNode construction with has_match_rule() test, set SpecialArraysEquals default off
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Summary: Intrinsify java/util/Arrays.equals(char[], char[])
Reviewed-by: kvn, 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: combine many scalar variables into a single enum-indexed array in SystemDictionary.
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Initial checkin of JSDT code
Reviewed-by: acorn, sbohne

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

Summary: remove old private plugin interface, simplify, rework old plugin to use unchanged Gnu sources
Reviewed-by: kvn, rasbold

6539517: CR 6186200 should be extended to perm gen allocation to prevent spurious OOM's from perm gen
Reviewed-by: ysr, jmasa

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

Summary: Remove -XX:+CacheTimeMillis option and associated functionality
Reviewed-by: acorn, never

6634032: CMS: Need CMSInitiatingPermOccupancyFraction for perm, divorcing from CMSInitiatingOccupancyFraction
Summary: The option CMSInitiatingPermOccupancyFraction now controls perm triggering threshold. Even though the actual value of the threshold has not yet been changed, so there is no change in policy, we now have the infrastructure in place for dynamically deciding when to collect the perm gen, an issue that will be addressed in the near future.
Reviewed-by: jmasa

Summary: Mangling the unused space is having an adverse affect on testing with fastdebug builds so turn it off by default.
Reviewed-by: ysr, tonyp

Summary: Use the same default number of GC threads as used by ParNewGC and ConcMarkSweepGC (i.e., the 5/8th rule).
Reviewed-by: ysr, tonyp