RFR :7088419 : (L) Use x86 Hardware CRC32 Instruction with java.util.zip.CRC32 and java.util.zip.Adler32

[David Chase]

On 2013-05-20, at 11:28 AM, Vladimir Kozlov <vladimir.kozlov at oracle.com> wrote:

> On 5/20/13 6:49 AM, David Chase wrote:
>> Suppose I split this bug (i.e., file a new bug) into the Intel-acceleration part and the fork-join part.
> 
> Yes, please, do that.

And, before I waste more time tearing my hair out, suppose that I punt on accelerating Windows until we are using a more modern Visual Studio?
Because I went a looked at the problem, the assembly language has a completely different syntax, it would double the amount of ugly asm in that file, and the people with the performance problem were not running Windows.

> You still don't want to do it in VM as intrinsic/stubs? ;)

I think that would be a lovely idea.
Can we get 16-byte alignment guaranteed from the GCC, and use of 128-bit wide xmm registers compiled in?

> You would not have all these C++ issues and I can help you with that.

It is clear that the compiler internals are the land of don't-ask-don't-tell.
Perhaps we could slip a little fork-join parallelism in there, too? :-)

David