ghc -fasm declared not too shabby

Got some initial nobench numbers for ghc head -fvia-C versus -fasm, on amd64: http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~dons/nobench/x86_64/results.html Overall all of nobench, ghc -fasm averages 3% slower. Not too shabby! There's some wider variation on the microbenchmarks in the imaginary class: one case 20% faster, another 30% slower, average 2% slower. On real programs though, 3% slower on average. The big benefit of course, no perl, no gcc and faster compilation times. -- Don