RFR: JDK-8270340: Base64 decodeBlock intrinsic for Power64 needs cleanup

Sat Jul 17 00:05:50 UTC 2021

On Thu, 15 Jul 2021 18:48:37 GMT, Martin Doerr <mdoerr at openjdk.org> wrote:

> I guess we will never change the unroll factor. Why not clean it up?

I debated with myself back and forth on that.  My thinking was that perhaps it will make sense on later processors, like Power11.  On the other hand, it's some technical debt to have that complexity without the need.

I'll push another commit to remove it (after testing it, of course)

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/4762