RFR(S) JDK-8181810 PPC64: Leverage extrdi for bitfield extract
    Matthew Brandyberry 
    mbrandy at linux.vnet.ibm.com
       
    Mon Jun 19 16:30:28 UTC 2017
    
    
  
This is a PPC-specific hotspot optimization that leverages the 
mtfprd/mffprd
instructions for for movement between general purpose and floating point
registers (rather than through memory).  It yields a ~35% improvement 
measured
via a microbenchmark.
Please review:
Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8181809
Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~gromero/8181809/v1/
Thanks,
Matt
    
    
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