RFR: 8350468: x86: Improve implementation of vectorized numberOfLeadingZeros for int and long

Jasmine Karthikeyan jkarthikeyan at openjdk.org
Mon Aug 4 02:27:14 UTC 2025


Hi all,
This is a patch that optimizes the x86 backend implementation of `CountLeadingZerosV` for int and long. In the review of [JDK-8349637)](https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8349637) an [optimized algorithm]( https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/pull/23579#issuecomment-2661332497) was proposed by @rgiulietti, which this PR implements. For integer operands, the optimized algorithm reduces the number of vector instructions from 19 to 13. The same algorithm does not work for long operands, however, since avx2 lacks a vectorized long->double conversion instruction. Instead, I found an optimized algorithm to reuse the code for int and compute the leading zeros for long with only 4 additional instructions. I added a benchmark and on my Zen 3 machine I get these results:

                                 Baseline                        Patch        
Benchmark              Mode  Cnt    Score   Error  Units    Score   Error  Units  Improvement
LeadingZeros.testInt   avgt   15   91.097 ± 3.276  ns/op   68.665 ± 1.740  ns/op  (+ 28.1%)
LeadingZeros.testLong  avgt   15  342.545 ± 4.470  ns/op  228.668 ± 5.994  ns/op  (+ 39.9%)

I've updated the unit tests to more thoroughly test longs and they pass on my machine. Thoughts and reviews would be appreciated!

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Commit messages:
 - Optimize numberOfLeadingZeros

Changes: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/26610/files
  Webrev: https://webrevs.openjdk.org/?repo=jdk&pr=26610&range=00
  Issue: https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8350468
  Stats: 225 lines in 3 files changed: 160 ins; 17 del; 48 mod
  Patch: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/26610.diff
  Fetch: git fetch https://git.openjdk.org/jdk.git pull/26610/head:pull/26610

PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/26610


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