8186517: sun.nio.cs.StandardCharsets$Aliases and Classes can be lazily loaded
Reviewed-by: sherman, martin, plevart

8177631: Outdated performance advice in StringCoding
Reviewed-by: sherman

8174831: Reduce number of Charset classes loaded on bootstrap
Reviewed-by: alanb

8144693: Intrinsify StringCoding.hasNegatives() on SPARC
Summary: Implemented C2 instrinsic for StringCode.hasNegatives() on SPARC.
Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose, thartmann
Contributed-by: Guy Delamarter <guy.delamarter@oracle.com>

8146484: Examine sun.misc.MessageUtils
Reviewed-by: alanb, mchung, sherman

8141132: JEP 254: Compact Strings
Summary: Adopt a more space-efficient internal representation for strings.
Reviewed-by: alanb, bdelsart, coleenp, iklam, jiangli, jrose, kevinw, naoto, pliden, roland, smarks, twisti
Contributed-by: Brent Christian <brent.christian@oracle.com>, Vivek Deshpande <vivek.r.deshpande@intel.com>, Tobias Hartmann <tobias.hartmann@oracle.com>, Charlie Hunt <charlie.hunt@oracle.com>, Vladimir Kozlov <vladimir.kozlov@oracle.com>, Roger Riggs <roger.riggs@oracle.com>, Xueming Shen <xueming.shen@oracle.com>, Aleksey Shipilev <aleksey.shipilev@oracle.com>, Sandhya Viswanathan <sandhya.viswanathan@intel.com>

8136583: Core libraries should use blessed modifier order
Summary: Run blessed-modifier-order script (see bug)
Reviewed-by: psandoz, chegar, alanb, plevart

Merge

8054834: Modular Source Code
Reviewed-by: alanb, chegar, ihse, mduigou
Contributed-by: alan.bateman@oracle.com, alex.buckley@oracle.com, chris.hegarty@oracle.com, erik.joelsson@oracle.com, jonathan.gibbons@oracle.com, karen.kinnear@oracle.com, magnus.ihse.bursie@oracle.com, mandy.chung@oracle.com, mark.reinhold@oracle.com, paul.sandoz@oracle.com