[vectorIntrinsics+compress] RFR: 8274839: Intrinsic support for compress & expand VectorAPI

[Sandhya Viswanathan]

On Wed, 6 Oct 2021 13:42:11 GMT, Joshua Zhu <jzhu at openjdk.org> wrote:

> I separate my implementation of "compress" API into several patches for easy review.
> This change is the intrinsic support for compress/expand API.
> The intrinsic method "selectiveOp" in VectorSupport accepts boolean to indicate expansion or compression.

@JoshuaZhuwj Other than the above comments, rest of the patch looks good to me.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/panama-vector/pull/145