Review request for JDK-8012334: ToUint32, ToInt32, and ToUint16 don't conform to spec

[Marcus Lagergren]

OK. We are introducing method specialization based on call sites and we ARE introducing strength reduction based on rage analysis, so I guess this is +1 for me.

On Apr 24, 2013, at 12:26 AM, Hannes Wallnoefer <hannes.wallnoefer at oracle.com> wrote:

> The microbenchmark goes from about 250 millis to about 380 for most numbers. But I guess we'll have to bite the bullet. Also V8 takes around 380 milliseconds when it actually converts from double (much faster when it's able to optimize to ints) so I guess it's just the time it takes.
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> I also did a few octane runs and couldn't detect any regression there.
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> Hannes
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> Am 2013-04-23 20:51, schrieb Marcus Lagergren:
>> How much is a bit and what did you measure?
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>> On Apr 23, 2013, at 8:33 PM, Hannes Wallnoefer <hannes.wallnoefer at oracle.com> wrote:
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>>> Please review webrev for JDK-8012334: ToUint32, ToInt32, and ToUint16 don't conform to spec:
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>>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~hannesw/8012334/
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>>> The code path for small numbers is now a little bit slower but not much. The code path for large numbers  that don't fit in 32 bits is quite a bit slower, but it should be correct now. The patch also contains a microbenchmark for ToInt32 (signed right shift) and ToUint32 (unsigned right shift).
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>>> Hannes
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