Hi, This patch reimplements `VectorShuffle` implementations to be a vector of the bit type. Currently, VectorShuffle is stored as a byte array, and would be expanded upon usage. This poses several drawbacks:
1. Inefficient conversions between a shuffle and its corresponding vector. This hinders the performance when the shuffle indices are not constant and are loaded or computed dynamically. 2. Redundant expansions in `rearrange` operations. On all platforms, it seems that a shuffle index vector is always expanded to the correct type before executing the `rearrange` operations. 3. Some redundant intrinsics are needed to support this handling as well as special considerations in the C2 compiler. 4. Range checks are performed using `VectorShuffle::toVector`, which is inefficient for FP types since both FP conversions and FP comparisons are more expensive than the integral ones. Upon these changes, a `rearrange` can emit more efficient code: var species = IntVector.SPECIES_128; var v1 = IntVector.fromArray(species, SRC1, 0); var v2 = IntVector.fromArray(species, SRC2, 0); v1.rearrange(v2.toShuffle()).intoArray(DST, 0); Before: movabs $0x751589fa8,%r10 ; {oop([I{0x0000000751589fa8})} vmovdqu 0x10(%r10),%xmm2 movabs $0x7515a0d08,%r10 ; {oop([I{0x00000007515a0d08})} vmovdqu 0x10(%r10),%xmm1 movabs $0x75158afb8,%r10 ; {oop([I{0x000000075158afb8})} vmovdqu 0x10(%r10),%xmm0 vpand -0xddc12(%rip),%xmm0,%xmm0 # Stub::vector_int_to_byte_mask ; {external_word} vpackusdw %xmm0,%xmm0,%xmm0 vpackuswb %xmm0,%xmm0,%xmm0 vpmovsxbd %xmm0,%xmm3 vpcmpgtd %xmm3,%xmm1,%xmm3 vtestps %xmm3,%xmm3 jne 0x00007fc2acb4e0d8 vpmovzxbd %xmm0,%xmm0 vpermd %ymm2,%ymm0,%ymm0 movabs $0x751588f98,%r10 ; {oop([I{0x0000000751588f98})} vmovdqu %xmm0,0x10(%r10) After: movabs $0x751589c78,%r10 ; {oop([I{0x0000000751589c78})} vmovdqu 0x10(%r10),%xmm1 movabs $0x75158ac88,%r10 ; {oop([I{0x000000075158ac88})} vmovdqu 0x10(%r10),%xmm2 vpxor %xmm0,%xmm0,%xmm0 vpcmpgtd %xmm2,%xmm0,%xmm3 vtestps %xmm3,%xmm3 jne 0x00007fa818b27cb1 vpermd %ymm1,%ymm2,%ymm0 movabs $0x751588c68,%r10 ; {oop([I{0x0000000751588c68})} vmovdqu %xmm0,0x10(%r10) Please take a look and leave reviews. Thanks a lot. ------------- Commit messages: - fix internal types, clean up - optimise laneIsValid - Merge branch 'master' into shufflerefactor - small beautifications - other architecture - fix mismatched fp vector payload types - draft Changes: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/13093/files Webrev: https://webrevs.openjdk.org/?repo=jdk&pr=13093&range=00 Issue: https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8304450 Stats: 4440 lines in 62 files changed: 2567 ins; 651 del; 1222 mod Patch: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/13093.diff Fetch: git fetch https://git.openjdk.org/jdk pull/13093/head:pull/13093 PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/13093