Reviewed-by: iveresov, tonyp

Summary: Changed the guard on the definition of the method value in HeapWord from ASSERT to not PRODUCT.
Reviewed-by: iveresov, apetrusenko

6459804: Want client (c1) compiler for x86_64 (amd64) for faster start-up
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Maintain a high water mark for the allocations in a space and mangle only up to that high water mark.
Reviewed-by: ysr, apetrusenko

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

Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose

Summary: This fix enables the generation of core file when process runs out of C-heap.
Reviewed-by: sbohne

Summary: First mercurial integration of the code for the Garbage-First garbage collector.
Reviewed-by: apetrusenko, iveresov, jmasa, sgoldman, tonyp, ysr

Summary: Transform long division by constant into multiply
Reviewed-by: never, kvn

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

Summary: remove old private plugin interface, simplify, rework old plugin to use unchanged Gnu sources
Reviewed-by: kvn, rasbold

Reviewed-by: jmasa, xlu

Summary: (for Serguei) Allow for Linux builds with Sun Studio Linux compilers
Reviewed-by: sspitsyn, ohair

Summary: Changed wording to "A fatal error.." also don't claim it's not VM bug if in hotspot compilers (Java thread in native).
Reviewed-by: jjh, sbohne, jrose, never

Summary: T_ADDRESS size is defined as 'int' size (4 bytes) but C2 use it for raw pointers and as memory type for StoreP and LoadP nodes.
Reviewed-by: jrose