RFR: 8265783: Create a separate library for x86 Intel SVML assembly intrinsics

[Andrew Haley]

On 4/22/21 11:27 PM, Sandhya Viswanathan wrote:
> Intel Short Vector Math Library (SVML) based intrinsics in native x86 assembly provide optimized implementation for Vector API transcendental and trigonometric methods.
> These methods are built into a separate library instead of being part of libjvm.so or jvm.dll.

Is this really acceptable code quality for OpenJDK? No comments, no
explanation of the derivation of algorithms, no explanation or proofs
of accuracy. There doesn't even seem to be any source code, just compiler
output.

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