RFR: 8329331: Intrinsify Unsafe::setMemory [v4]

[Dean Long]

On Wed, 3 Apr 2024 15:15:24 GMT, Scott Gibbons <sgibbons at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> This code makes an intrinsic stub for `Unsafe::setMemory` for x86_64.  See [this PR](https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/pull/16760) for discussion around this change.
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>> Overall, making this an intrinsic improves overall performance of `Unsafe::setMemory` by up to 4x for all buffer sizes.
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>> Tested with tier-1 (and full CI).  I've added a table of the before and after numbers for the JMH I ran (`MemorySegmentZeroUnsafe`).
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>> [setMemoryBM.txt](https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/files/14808974/setMemoryBM.txt)
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> Scott Gibbons has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
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>   Fix Windows

As an experiment, couldn't you have the C2 intrinsic redirect to a Java helper that calls putByte() in a loop?

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/18555#issuecomment-2038994043