Vector API Mask Boolean Operation Support

[Paul Sandoz]

I presume the binary ops need to check that the species is the same?

Do you require that we explicitly transform GenericMask into a bunch of species specific classes to optimize the detection of the species? That’s easy to do with the template infrastructure.

An alternative strategy that might help is to annotate the species field with @Stable.

Paul.

> On 14 Nov 2017, at 17:23, Lupusoru, Razvan A <razvan.a.lupusoru at intel.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I have added boolean operation support for masks (and, or, not) in order to support vectorization of nested control flow. Please check out patch and if there are no concerns by tomorrow, I will go ahead and merge it.
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~rlupusoru/panama/webrev_maskbool_00/
> 
> Thanks,
> Razvan
>