RFR: 8303401: Add a Vector API equalsIgnoreCase micro benchmark [v3]

[Xiaohong Gong]

On Tue, 28 Feb 2023 23:08:29 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
>
> Eirik Bjorsnos has updated the pull request incrementally with two additional commits since the last revision:
> 
>  - Uppercase Thorn is 0xDE
>  - Update 'a' to 'A' and 'z' to 'Z' in comments

test/micro/org/openjdk/bench/jdk/incubator/vector/EqualsIgnoreCaseBenchmark.java line 61:

> 59:         len = a.length;
> 60:     }
> 61:     @Benchmark

Style: Insert one blank line between line 60-61?

test/micro/org/openjdk/bench/jdk/incubator/vector/EqualsIgnoreCaseBenchmark.java line 124:

> 122:     }
> 123: 
> 124:     public  boolean scalarEqualsIgnoreCase(byte[] a, byte[] b, int len) {

Style: remove one more space between "`public  boolean`" please?

test/micro/org/openjdk/bench/jdk/incubator/vector/EqualsIgnoreCaseBenchmark.java line 147:

> 145:             return false;  // Low ASCII
> 146:         }
> 147:         return ( U <= 'Z' // In range A-Z

Style: remove one more space between `(  U` please?

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