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

Summary: bitCount() should use POPC on SPARC processors where POPC is implemented directly in hardware.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Summary: There is very much duplicated code in vm_version_x86_{32,64}.{cpp,hpp}.  Refactoring these would help maintainability.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Summary: Use SSE2 movdqu in arraycopy stubs on newest Intel's cpus
Reviewed-by: rasbold

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

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

Summary: For small (1-3 bits) left long shifts in 32-bits VM use sets of add+addc instructions instead of shld+shl on new AMD cpus.
Reviewed-by: never
Contributed-by: shrinivas.joshi@amd.com

Summary: Use CVTDQ2PS and CVTDQ2PD for integer values conversions to float and double values on new AMD cpu.
Reviewed-by: sgoldman, never