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

Reviewed-by: kvn

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

Reviewed-by: xlu, mchung

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

Summary: preparatory but separable changes for method handles
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Reviewed-by: coleenp, pbk, xlu, alanb

Reviewed-by: kamg, coleenp

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

Summary: Add missing code for reflection class loader in SystemDictionary::find().
Reviewed-by: never, jrose

Summary: The CMS concurrent precleaning and concurrent marking phases should work around classes that are undergoing redefinition.
Reviewed-by: ysr, dcubed

Reviewed-by: phh, xlu

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

Summary: Fixed the wrong cast between types since more restrictions are imposed by gcc 4.3.2
Reviewed-by: jcoomes, acorn, phh, never

Summary: Update copyright for files that have been modified starting July 2008 to Dec 2008
Reviewed-by: katleman, ohair, tbell

Summary: temporarily turn off LinkWellKnownClasses optimization
Reviewed-by: never, kvn

Summary: low-level privileged sun.misc.Unsafe.defineAnonymousClass
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Add mechanism to ignore unsupported flags for a set period of time
Reviewed-by: acorn, never, coleenp

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: Make max classfile version number dependent on JDK version
Reviewed-by: acorn, never

Summary: Use the gap also for a narrow oop field and a boxing object value.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, never

Summary: back out sa-related changes to 6652736, use concrete expressions for WKK names in the SA
Reviewed-by: never, sundar

Summary: increase class file parser's acceptable max to 51
Reviewed-by: sbohne, ikrylov

Summary: combine many scalar variables into a single enum-indexed array in SystemDictionary.
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Added a clause to allow null to be an operand to the arraylength bytecode
Reviewed-by: sbohne, coleenp

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

Summary: A check on Code length did not take into account the old sizes of the max_stack, max_locals, and code_length.
Reviewed-by: phh, sbohne

Summary: fix or remove uninitialized fields
Reviewed-by: kvn, rasbold

Summary: Make RedefineClasses() interoperate better with class sharing.
Reviewed-by: sspitsyn, jmasa

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

Summary: convert strings from Download Manager into native encoding in the VM
Reviewed-by: sbohne, never, phh, kamg, xlu

Reviewed-by: sbohne, xlu

Reviewed-by: kvn, rasbold