Pitiful benchmark performance

[James Hague]

> > A nice thing though is that Erlang behaves quite well on some 
> > benchmarks, for example nested loops, where it is one of the 
> > fastest non-natively compiled systems. (And HiPE is more than 
> > 6 times faster than BEAM on this benchmark putting Erlang in 
> > the ballpark of the statically typed smlnj.)
> 
> That's good to hear. Looking forward to R8.

Is HiPE part of R8?