String intrinsics defunct on arch != amd64 after 8141132: JEP 254: Compact Strings

[Andrew Haley]

On 30/11/15 18:54, Volker Simonis wrote:
> Moreover, "UseSSE42Intrinsics" is clearly a architecture-dependant
> option. I already wondered that according to vm_version_aarch64.cpp it
> seems to exists on aarch64 (is this really true Andrew?). But it's
> surely not available on PowerPC, SPARC, ...

Sure it is.  The flag is just oddly-named, that's all: it means
"InlineStringIndexOf".  I have no idea why a name like
UseSSE42Intrinsics ever made its way into the shared code.

Andrew.