Pitiful benchmark performance

[Happi]

Kostis Sagonas wrote:
> FIY, the HiPE group and members of the Erlang/OTP team held a very
> loooong meeting today and among other things, the following were
> decided:
>
>   - If the Erlang/OTP team decides to release a pre-release of R8
>     during the summer (quite probable), HiPE will also be part of
>     this pre-release.  The supported platform will be SPARC *only*.
>
>   - HiPE will be part of R8 (coming out sometime in September or so).
>     The supported platform (for HiPE) will be the SPARC architecture
>     and there one can observe the speedups reported by Erik Johansson
>     in his mail.

Just to clearify: HiPE will be an *unsupported* part of R8, that is, OTP
will not support it.
Use it at your own risk, and your own reward ;)
(Hopefully, it will be fully supporten in R9.)
One goal with this release is to get a user-base who can give us feedback,
suggestions for improvements, and above all, realistic benchmarks.

/Erik Johansson