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

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

Reviewed-by: coleenp, pbk, xlu, alanb

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

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

Reviewed-by: sbohne, xlu

Reviewed-by: kvn, rasbold