RFR: 8210416: [linux] Poor StrictMath performance due to non-optimized compilation

[Severin Gehwolf]

On Mon, 2018-09-10 at 09:29 -0700, Erik Joelsson wrote:
> I see. I was not aware of that issue, but we clearly need to file a bug 
> for it and fix it. In this case I think it's fine to us the macro however.

OK. Update webrev, which now uses FLAGS_COMPILER_CHECK_ARGUMENTS.

http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~sgehwolf/webrevs/JDK-8210416/webrev.04/

Micro-benchmark results from running [1] for x86_64 and ppc64le are
here (-O2 is sufficient it seems):

http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~sgehwolf/webrevs/JDK-8210416/microbenchmarks_results/

More thoughts?

Thanks,
Severin

[1] https://github.com/gromero/strictmath/