Request for reviews (XXL): 6893268: additional dynamic language related optimizations in C2

[Christian Thalinger]

On Tue, 2009-12-15 at 14:42 -0800, John Rose wrote:
> FYI:  Here's the code I'm playing with.  But I think I prefer your startsWith method.

Good, then I'll roll that into the patch.

> I think we're also missing ciSymbol::utf8_byte_at to do '/' checks w/o allocations.

There is a ciSymbol::byte_at which does no allocation.

-- Christian