RFR: 8309130: x86_64 AVX512 intrinsics for Arrays.sort methods (int, long, float and double arrays) [v26]

[Srinivas Vamsi Parasa]

On Fri, 25 Aug 2023 01:52:32 GMT, Sandhya Viswanathan <sviswanathan at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> pivotIndices array is being passed as a parameter to the partition intrinsic as it is updated in-place with the new pivot indices after partitioning. The Unsafe.ARRAY_INT_BASE_OFFSET is being used in libary_call.cpp to get the address of pivotIndices.
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> As PivotIndices is local to the DualPivotQuickSort and is always going to be int array, there are other ways to compute the address in library_call.cpp without having to pass an additional argument.

As suggested, the code was updated to no longer pass the offset(Unsafe.ARRAY_INT_BASE_OFFSET) for pivotIndices array. Please see the code in the latest commit.

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/14227#discussion_r1307964768