RFR: 8303401: Add a Vector API equalsIgnoreCase micro benchmark

[Eric Caspole]

On Tue, 28 Feb 2023 15:59:26 GMT, Eirik Bjorsnos <duke at openjdk.org> wrote:

> This PR suggests we add a vectorized equalsIgnoreCase benchmark to the set of benchmarks in `org.openjdk.bench.jdk.incubator.vector`. This benchmark serves as an example of how vectorization can be useful also in the area of text processing. It takes advantage of the fact that ASCII and Latin-1 were designed to optimize case-twiddling operations.
> 
> The code came about during the work on #12632, where vectorization was deemed out of scope.
> 
> Benchmark results:
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> Benchmark                             (size)  Mode  Cnt     Score   Error  Units
> EqualsIgnoreCaseBenchmark.scalar          16  avgt   15    20.671 ± 0.718  ns/op
> EqualsIgnoreCaseBenchmark.scalar          32  avgt   15    46.155 ± 3.258  ns/op
> EqualsIgnoreCaseBenchmark.scalar          64  avgt   15    68.248 ± 1.767  ns/op
> EqualsIgnoreCaseBenchmark.scalar         128  avgt   15   148.948 ± 0.890  ns/op
> EqualsIgnoreCaseBenchmark.scalar        1024  avgt   15  1090.708 ± 7.540  ns/op
> EqualsIgnoreCaseBenchmark.vectorized      16  avgt   15    21.872 ± 0.232  ns/op
> EqualsIgnoreCaseBenchmark.vectorized      32  avgt   15    11.378 ± 0.097  ns/op
> EqualsIgnoreCaseBenchmark.vectorized      64  avgt   15    13.703 ± 0.135  ns/op
> EqualsIgnoreCaseBenchmark.vectorized     128  avgt   15    21.632 ± 0.735  ns/op
> EqualsIgnoreCaseBenchmark.vectorized    1024  avgt   15   105.509 ± 7.493  ns/op

I am not an expert in Vector API but in terms of JMH structure it looks good.

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Marked as reviewed by ecaspole (Committer).

PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/12790