[vectorIntrinsics+compress] Integrated: 8274664: Add support for compress/expand api methods

[Sandhya Viswanathan]

On Fri, 1 Oct 2021 22:33:43 GMT, Sandhya Viswanathan <sviswanathan at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Add support for the cross lane operations to compress/expand the lane elements of a vector selecting lanes under the control of a mask. The remaining lanes of the destination vector could be either set to zero or get the value from corresponding elements of the background vector.
> The following methods are added:
>  public abstract Vector<E> compress(VectorMask<E> m);
>  public abstract Vector<E> compress(VectorMask<E> m, Vector<E> v);
>  public abstract Vector<E> expand(VectorMask<E> m);
>  public abstract Vector<E> expand(VectorMask<E> m, Vector<E> v);

This pull request has now been integrated.

Changeset: be08abfa
Author:    Sandhya Viswanathan <sviswanathan at openjdk.org>
URL:       https://git.openjdk.java.net/panama-vector/commit/be08abfa2c258d829b4f1cb4f492d560af83919e
Stats:     7010 lines in 72 files changed: 7010 ins; 0 del; 0 mod

8274664: Add support for compress/expand api methods

Reviewed-by: psandoz

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/panama-vector/pull/143