6875866: Intrinsic for String.indexOf() is broken on x86 with SSE4.2
Summary: Modify String intrinsic methods to pass char[] pointers instead of string oops.
Reviewed-by: never

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

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

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: 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: Code in vtableStubs and templateTable moved into MacroAssembler.
Reviewed-by: kvn

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

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

Summary: Use SSE2 movdqu in arraycopy stubs on newest Intel's cpus
Reviewed-by: rasbold

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: First mercurial integration of the code for the Garbage-First garbage collector.
Reviewed-by: apetrusenko, iveresov, jmasa, sgoldman, tonyp, ysr

Summary: Generate addresses and implicit null checks with narrow oops to avoid decoding.
Reviewed-by: jrose, never

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