diff -r 765ee2d1674b -r 6f8f439e247d src/share/vm/opto/c2_globals.hpp
--- a/src/share/vm/opto/c2_globals.hpp	Mon Jun 18 15:17:30 2012 -0700
+++ b/src/share/vm/opto/c2_globals.hpp	Tue Jun 19 15:12:56 2012 -0700
@@ -299,9 +299,12 @@
   develop(bool, SuperWordRTDepCheck, false,                                 \
           "Enable runtime dependency checks.")                              \
                                                                             \
-  product(bool, TraceSuperWord, false,                                      \
+  notproduct(bool, TraceSuperWord, false,                                   \
           "Trace superword transforms")                                     \
                                                                             \
+  notproduct(bool, TraceNewVectors, false,                                  \
+          "Trace creation of Vector nodes")                                 \
+                                                                            \
   product_pd(bool, OptoBundling,                                            \
           "Generate nops to fill i-cache lines")                            \
                                                                             \