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