Reviewed-by: never, twisti
Contributed-by: NHiroshi Yamauchi <yamauchi@google.com>

Summary: C2 needs some additional optimizations to be able to handle MethodHandle invokes and invokedynamic instructions at the best performance.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Summary: During the work for 6829187 we have fixed a number of basic bugs which are logically grouped with 6815692 and 6858164 but which must be reviewed and pushed separately.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Summary: We need a way to walk chained method handles in the JVM to call the right methods and to generate required bytecode adapters for the compilers.
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Call sun.jkernel.DownloadManager.setBootClassLoaderHook during the kernel VM initialization
Reviewed-by: alanb, coleenp, acorn

Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: Fix several crashers, remove needless paths for boxed-style bootstrap method call, refactor & simplify APIs for rewriter constantPoolOop, remove sun.dyn.CallSiteImpl
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: remove useless lazy evaluation of intrinsics; add LAST_COMPILER_INLINE to help categorize them
Reviewed-by: kvn

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

Summary: invokedynamic instruction (JSR 292 RI)
Reviewed-by: twisti, 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

Summary: Tune C2 flags default values for performance.
Reviewed-by: never, phh, iveresov, jmasa, ysr

Summary: Change create_vm() to load and initialize StringValue rather than String.
Reviewed-by: kvn

Reviewed-by: coleenp, pbk, xlu, alanb

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

Summary: Update copyright for files that have been modified in 2009, up to 03/09
Reviewed-by: katleman, tbell, ohair

Summary: VM support for deadlock fix. Library fix in 4735126. See API proposal.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, blacklion

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

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

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

Summary: Use MDO to cache arguments escape state determined by the byte code escape analyzer.
Reviewed-by: never

Reviewed-by: sbohne, xlu

Reviewed-by: kvn, rasbold