Request for reviews (S): 8005522: use fast-string instructions on x86 for zeroing

[Vladimir Kozlov]

On 1/2/13 4:56 PM, Christian Thalinger wrote:
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> On Jan 2, 2013, at 10:28 AM, Vladimir Kozlov <vladimir.kozlov at oracle.com> wrote:
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>> Thank you, Roland
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>> I added separate mach nodes for fast stosb in .ad files to fox formats:
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>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~kvn/8005522/webrev.01/
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> +   void rep_setbyte();
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> Can we name it rep_stosb?  That's closer to the actual instruction.

For that I also need to rename rep_set() to rep_stos():

http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~kvn/8005522/webrev.02

Thanks,
Vladimir

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> -- Chris
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>> Thanks,
>> Vladimir
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>> On 1/2/13 1:39 AM, Roland Westrelin wrote:
>>>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~kvn/8005522/webrev/
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>>>> 8005522: use fast-string instructions on x86 for zeroing
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>>> In x86_32.ad/x86_64.ad the rep_stos() format is no longer in sync with the code that is emitted.
>>> Otherwise, it looks good.
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>>> Roland.
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