[aarch64-port-dev ] RFR(s): AArch64: 8149080: Recoginize disjoint array copy in stub code

[Edward Nevill]

On Fri, 2016-02-05 at 12:58 +0000, Andrew Haley wrote:
> On 02/05/2016 12:47 PM, Hui Shi wrote:
> > Arraycopy without overlapping is faster than overlapped copy.
> 
> The only thing which varies is the direction of copying.  I'm not
> aware of anything which makes one direction faster than the other.
> Measurements, please.

Copy backwards doesn't prefetch. The difference with and without
prefetch can be very significant on some micro-arches.

    if (direction == copy_forwards && PrefetchCopyIntervalInBytes > 0)
      __ prfm(Address(s, PrefetchCopyIntervalInBytes), PLDL1KEEP);

I have done some experiments with prefetch enabled for backwards copy
and it shows almost identical performance to forwards copy.

Regards,
Ed.