[vectorIntrinsics] RFR: 8283598: [vectorapi] Add new vector operation for compress bits

Tue Apr 12 19:03:12 UTC 2022

On Tue, 12 Apr 2022 18:13:06 GMT, Sandhya Viswanathan <sviswanathan at openjdk.org> wrote:

> @smita-kamath Please update the summary at the top of the PR to reflect the latest:
> 
> 1. Both compress and expand are implemented
> 2. Support for only int/long vectors
>    Also it will be good to update the title of JDK-8283598 to reflect that expand is also implemented as part of this PR.

@sviswa7 , any specific reason to drop byte/short versions for these APIs

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/panama-vector/pull/184