RFR: 8268363: AArch64: Implement string_indexof_char intrinsic in SVE [v4]

[Andrew Haley]

On Thu, 1 Jul 2021 04:10:26 GMT, TatWai Chong <github.com+78814694+tatwaichong at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> This patch implements string_indexof_char intrinsic in SVE for both
>> UTF-16 and Latin-8 variants. In the current underneath implementation,
>> there is only 4 and 8 characters are compared at a time in UTF-16 and
>> Latin-8 respectively. In this patch, we adopt SVE to vectorize this
>> intrinsic so that a wider comparison can be performed each time.
>> 
>> I've run [1] with this patch on an SVE machine, and the performance of
>> StringIndexOfChar.latin1_mixed_char (length=65) and
>> StringIndexOfChar.utf16_mixed_char (length=65) are improved significantly,
>> while no visible regression for other cases with shorter strings.
>> (length=7, 8, 15, 16 and 32)
>> 
>> [1] https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/blob/master/test/micro/org/openjdk/bench/java/lang/StringIndexOfChar.java
>
> TatWai Chong has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
> 
>   Merge these intrinsic instructs into a macro.

Thanks, nice work.

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Marked as reviewed by aph (Reviewer).

PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/4567