8034206: Make parts of code pipeline reusable in order to facilitate faster warmup and faster lazy compilation. Reviewed-by: hannesw, attila

8043235: Type-based optimizations interfere with continuation methods Reviewed-by: jlaskey, lagergren

8043133: Fix corner cases of JDK-8041995 Reviewed-by: hannesw, lagergren

8044154: Nashorn : all tests failed with java.security.AccessControlException Reviewed-by: attila, sundar

8043137: Collapse long sequences of NOP in Nashorn bytecode output Reviewed-by: jlaskey, lagergren

8043004: Reduce variability at JavaAdapter call sites Reviewed-by: lagergren, sundar

8043003: Use strongly referenced generic invokers Reviewed-by: lagergren, sundar

8043002: Improve performance of Nashorn equality operators Reviewed-by: lagergren, sundar

8042118: Separate types from symbols Reviewed-by: hannesw, lagergren

8037572: Add more test cases to check static types Reviewed-by: attila, lagergren

8041625: AccessorProperty currentType must only by Object.class when non-primitive, and scoping followup problem for lazily generated with bodies Reviewed-by: jlaskey, attila

8038398: OptimisticRecompilationTest fails on staging repo nashorn/jdk9/nashorn due to test framework Reviewed-by: attila, lagergren

8041995: Problems when loading tree expressions with several optimistic program points when optimistically initializing ObjectNodes Reviewed-by: jlaskey, attila

8041905: Fix apply2call bug that prevented avatar.js unit tests from running correctly Reviewed-by: attila, hannesw

8041434: Add synchronization to the common global constants structure Reviewed-by: attila, hannesw