RFR: 8255553: [PPC64] Introduce and use setbc and setnbc P10 instructions [v3]

[Ziviani]

On Mon, 2 Nov 2020 10:06:20 GMT, Martin Doerr <mdoerr at openjdk.org> wrote:

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> Thanks for doing this. Please check my inline comments.
> If you would like to benchmark C1, you can use -XX:TieredStopAtLevel=1 to switch off C2.
> When you factor the new logic out, I highly prefer to use it everywhere: C2, C1 (LIR_Assembler::comp_fl2i), interpreter (TemplateTable::lcmp, TemplateTable::float_cmp)

Hallo, @TheRealMDoerr. Sorry for the delay, there was a public holiday here. Anyway, the new code can be found [here](https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/commit/0af0205797e7084af4356934ed8e8ea185810569), hope I haven't missed any point.
Thanks again sir. Your hints were very precise, I learned a lot.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/907