`Vector::slice` is a method at the top-level class of the Vector API that concatenates the 2 inputs into an intermediate composite and extracts a window equal to the size of the inputs into the result. It is used in vector conversion methods where the part number is not 0 to slice the parts to the correct positions. Slicing is also used in text processing such as utf8 and utf16 validation. x86 starting from SSSE3 has `palignr` which does vector slicing very efficiently. As a result, I think it is beneficial to add a C2 node for this operation as well as intrinsify `Vector::slice` method.
A slice is currently implemented as `v2.rearrange(iota).blend(v1.rearrange(iota), blendMask)` which requires preparation of the index vector and the blending mask. Even with the preparations being hoisted out of the loops, microbenchmarks show improvement using the slice instrinsics. Some have tremendous increases in throughput due to the limitation that a mask of length 2 cannot currently be intrinsified, leading to falling back to the Java implementations. Please take a look and have some reviews. Thank you very much. ------------- Commit messages: - sse2, increase warmup - aesthetic - optimise 64B - add jmh - vector slice intrinsics Changes: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/12909/files Webrev: https://webrevs.openjdk.org/?repo=jdk&pr=12909&range=00 Issue: https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8303762 Stats: 1699 lines in 58 files changed: 1376 ins; 257 del; 66 mod Patch: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/12909.diff Fetch: git fetch https://git.openjdk.org/jdk pull/12909/head:pull/12909 PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/12909
