RFR: 8309893: Integrate ReplicateB/S/I/L/F/D nodes to Replicate node [v2]

[Eric Liu]

On Wed, 25 Oct 2023 09:49:13 GMT, Emanuel Peter <epeter at openjdk.org> wrote:

> What would happen if I were to compare with a type that is larger? For example if I compared the bytes here with the value `1000`?

I suppose `javac` would complain since ByteVector.compare (https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/blob/master/src/jdk.incubator.vector/share/classes/jdk/incubator/vector/ByteVector.java#L2120) requires byte type.

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/14830#discussion_r1377349625