RFR: 8358013: [PPC64] VSX has poor performance on Power8

Martin Doerr mdoerr at openjdk.org
Wed May 28 22:28:26 UTC 2025


Power8 only has limited VSX instructions for the superword optimization and the Vector API and the performance is bad. Let's only use it on Power9 and newer by default.

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Commit messages:
 - 8358013: [PPC64] VSX has poor performance on Power8

Changes: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/25514/files
  Webrev: https://webrevs.openjdk.org/?repo=jdk&pr=25514&range=00
  Issue: https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8358013
  Stats: 8 lines in 2 files changed: 7 ins; 0 del; 1 mod
  Patch: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/25514.diff
  Fetch: git fetch https://git.openjdk.org/jdk.git pull/25514/head:pull/25514

PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/25514


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