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

Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti, apetrusenko, never, dcubed

Summary: Use FieldsAllocationStyle=2 to allocate non static oop fields in super and sub classes together
Reviewed-by: twisti

Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: C2 needs some additional optimizations to be able to handle MethodHandle invokes and invokedynamic instructions at the best performance.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

6899467: System property java.class.version out-of-sync with VM for jdk 5.0 with HS 16 in nightly build
Reviewed-by: kvn, never, dholmes, ysr

Summary: changes for method handles and invokedynamic
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Fix races in jmethodID cache and JNI itable index cache.
Reviewed-by: ikrylov, acorn

Reviewed-by: kamg, dcubed

Reviewed-by: kamg, phh

Reviewed-by: jmasa, iveresov

Reviewed-by: tonyp, iveresov

Summary: remove useless lazy evaluation of intrinsics; add LAST_COMPILER_INLINE to help categorize them
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Add new jvmstat counters to measure detailed class loading time
Reviewed-by: acorn, kamg

Summary: initial implementation, with known omissions (x86/64, sparc, compiler optim., c-oops, C++ interp.)
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti, never

Reviewed-by: xlu, mchung

Reviewed-by: kamg, coleenp

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

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

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

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

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

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

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