Summary: Substitute a spin loop for most calls to yield() to reduce the stress on the system.
Reviewed-by: tonyp

Summary: Increased the default and maximum size of the CMS marking stack and the size of the parallel workers' work queues in 64-bit mode. The latter was accomplished by an increase in the width of the Taskqueue's Age struct and its Tag field in 64-bit mode.
Reviewed-by: jmasa, tonyp

Reviewed-by: iveresov, tonyp

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