Summary: Added asm encoding and mach nodes for vector arithmetic instructions on x86.
Reviewed-by: roland

Summary: Increase vector size up to 256-bits for YMM AVX registers on x86.
Reviewed-by: never, twisti, roland

Summary: replace frequent C2 optimizer code patterns with new methods calls
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti
Contributed-by: vladimir.x.ivanov@oracle.com

Summary: Changed "return false" to "return NULL"
Reviewed-by: dholmes, rottenha
Contributed-by: dbhole@redhat.com

Summary: Don't split CMove node if it's control edge is different from split region.
Reviewed-by: never

Summary: Use dead nodes elimination code in PhaseIdealLoop before executing EA.
Reviewed-by: never, twisti

Summary: Try to eliminate allocations and related locks immediately after escape analysis.
Reviewed-by: never

Summary: Exact limit of empty loop calculated incorrectly.
Reviewed-by: iveresov, never

Summary: Revert changes which caused regression.
Reviewed-by: never

Summary: Use cl->is_valid_counted_loop() check.
Reviewed-by: never

Summary: Removed predicate cloning from loop peeling optimization and from split fall-in paths.
Reviewed-by: never

Summary: Keep 'ne' test in Counted loop when we can't guarantee during compilation that init < limit.
Reviewed-by: never

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

Summary: Add new policy for one iteration loops (mostly formal pre- loops).
Reviewed-by: never

Summary: Clone loop predicate for clonned loops
Reviewed-by: never

Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Add predicates when loop head bytecode is parsed instead of when back branch bytecode is parsed.
Reviewed-by: never

Summary: Add ResourceMark into PhaseIdealLoop::build_and_optimize().
Reviewed-by: never

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

Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Use replace_node() method instead of subsume_node().
Reviewed-by: jrose, never

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

Summary: Loop predication implementation
Reviewed-by: never, kvn

Summary: Skip the secondary induction variable handling if it is dead
Reviewed-by: never, kvn

Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: Use SSE 4.2 in intrinsics for String.{compareTo/equals/indexOf} and Arrays.equals.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never, jrose

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

Summary: I have collected some typos I have found while looking at the code.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Summary: Renaming LoadC to LoadUS would round up the planned introduction of LoadUB and LoadUI.
Reviewed-by: phh, kvn

Reviewed-by: rasbold, jrose

Summary: fixed few addP node type and narrow oop type problems.
Reviewed-by: rasbold, never

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

Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose

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

Summary: Cloning an allocation will not allow scalar replacement since memory operations could not be associated with one allocation.
Reviewed-by: rasbold

Reviewed-by: kvn, rasbold