[jdk17u] RFR: 8271567: AArch64: AES Galois CounterMode (GCM) interleaved implementation using vector instructions [v3]

[Ismael Juma]

On Thu, 28 Oct 2021 15:39:57 GMT, Andrew Haley <aph at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> [New PR because of the 17u updates SNAFU.]
>> 
>> This is a backport of the big AES/GCM patch from JDK head. It's a
>> major change and it's had very little time (almost a day) to mature in
>> head, so I've set things up so that there is no change at all unless
>> you explicitly enable `-XX:+UseAESGCMIntrinsics`, which defaults
>> to false. When we've had more time we can perhaps turn it on by default.
>
> Andrew Haley has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
> 
>   New file

It's been nearly a year, can we consider enabling this by default now?

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk17u/pull/216