Loop strip mining to decreases safepoint poll frequency

[Andrew Haley]

On 28/02/17 12:35, Roland Westrelin wrote:
> 
>> This affects only counted loops too, right?
> 
> Yes.

I would have thought it would be useful in uncounted loops too.  I
suppose there's some risk that adding the extra bookkeeping might
slow down such loops.  But I was thinking that it might even allow
vectorization in loops where it can't be done today.

Andrew.