RFR 8167065 - Adding support for double precision shifting for x86

[Andrew Haley]

On 28/10/16 09:15, Vladimir Kozlov wrote:

> I don't see big benefits to have it in jdk 9 - no numbers for normal
> applications or big benchmarks. Only numbers for special
> microbenchmark was shown.
> 
> And I am concern about possible regressions so later in jdk 9 cycle.
> 
> I would prefer to move it to jdk 10. Unless you think it can give
> huge benefit to customers as we had with crypto intrinsics.

That makes sense: I'm just trying to schedule AArch64 work for JDK 9.
This code will improve the performance of crypto algorithms such as
RSA and Diffie-Hellman in GF(p), but probably only by a small amount.

Andrew.