Request for review (L): 6378821: where available, bitCount() should use POPC on SPARC processors and AMD+10h

[Christian Thalinger]

On Fri, 2009-03-13 at 09:46 -0700, Peter B. Kessler wrote:
> Some node subclasses have a static "make" factory method to hide the
> details of calling the placement new and remembering how many in's to
> specify.  You might want to have one of those for PopCountINode.

Hmm, didn't know these methods exist.  Is it common practice to use this
method?

-- Christian