[8u60] Request for approval of backport of 8081756: mastering matrix manipulations

[Phil Race]

8u review including code diff : 
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/2d-dev/2015-June/005488.html

identical 9 changeset : 
http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk9/client/jdk/rev/80e814d165f9

-phil.