Request for review (L): 6797305: Add LoadUB and LoadUI opcode class

Christian Thalinger Christian.Thalinger at Sun.COM
Thu Feb 26 09:22:31 PST 2009


On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 18:00 +0100, Ulf Zibis wrote:
> Christian,
> 
> thanks for the news.
> 
> Is LoadUB from array now as fast as the +0x80 trick ?

Yes, at least on SPARC.  On x86 your benchmarks may trick you as the
slowdown is not from the load instruction but from loop unrolling and
register pressure.  I will look into this issue when I have finished
this work (and that includes 5057225).

--Christian




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