Summary: this fix also removes the -XX:+UseStringCache option
Reviewed-by: dholmes, acorn, iklam

Summary: Corrected escape state for the result of boxing method. Added force inlining executed boxing methods.
Reviewed-by: twisti

Summary: Resurrected autobox elimination code and enabled part of it by default.
Reviewed-by: roland, twisti

Summary: added missing parenthesis
Reviewed-by: jrose

Reviewed-by: kvn, vlivanov

Reviewed-by: kvn, vlivanov
Contributed-by: NIgor Ignatyev <igor.ignatyev@oracle.com>

Summary: post parse inlining driven by number of live nodes.
Reviewed-by: twisti, kvn, jrose

Summary: collection of small changes to prepare for incremental inlining.
Reviewed-by: twisti, kvn

Summary: When java process crashed in compiler thread, repeat the compilation process will help finding root cause. This is done with using SA dump application class data and replay data from core dump, then use debug version of jvm to recompile the problematic java method.
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti, sspitsyn
Contributed-by: yumin.qi@oracle.com

Summary: Update copyright year to 2012 for relevant files
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp

Summary: add LogCompilation support in C1 - both client and tiered mode.
Reviewed-by: twisti, kvn

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: kvn, never
Contributed-by: nils.eliasson@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: kvn

Reviewed-by: twisti, roland, kvn, iveresov

Reviewed-by: never

Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Summary: don't skip receiver when GC'ing compiled invokedynamic callsites
Reviewed-by: twisti, kvn, jrose

7042122: JSR 292: adjust various inline thresholds for JSR 292 API methods and method handle adapters
Reviewed-by: jrose, never, kvn

Summary: Fix integer overflow problem in the code generated by loop optimizer.
Reviewed-by: never

Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Reviewed-by: never, kvn

Summary: package and class renaming only; delete unused methods and classes
Reviewed-by: twisti

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

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

Summary: Factored cleanup of instruction decode which prepares for enhanced ldc semantics.
Reviewed-by: twisti

Summary: C1 for SPARC needs to support JSR 292.
Reviewed-by: never, jrose

Summary: split MethodHandle.invoke into invokeExact and invokeGeneric; also clean up JVM-to-Java interfaces
Reviewed-by: twisti

Summary: Put all inline-related switches into product mode, to allow tuning by dynamic language implementors.
Reviewed-by: twisti, kvn

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: C2 implementation for invokedynamic support.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Summary: developed a reexecute logic for the interpreter to reexecute the bytecode when deopt happens
Reviewed-by: kvn, never, jrose, twisti

Summary: Update copyright for files that have been modified in 2009, up to 07/09
Reviewed-by: tbell, ohair

Summary: invokedynamic instruction (JSR 292 RI)
Reviewed-by: twisti, never

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

Reviewed-by: rasbold, jrose

Summary: switch on EA by default, optimize Connection Graph construction
Reviewed-by: rasbold, never

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

Summary: java constructors should be inlined to be able scalar replace a new object
Reviewed-by: rasbold